NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said this week that the Rooney Rule and other DEI efforts "make the NFL better" but two men who helped write the rule say a paucity of Black offensive coordinators ...

The NFL’s Rooney Rule is a worthy idea clumsily executed. Established in 2003 and tweaked in 2021, it requires teams to interview at least two minority candidates in person before they are ...

In 2021, the league expanded the Rooney Rule to require teams with a vacant head coach or general manager position to interview two external candidates, in person, who are people of color. The ...

New England Patriots violated Rooney Rule (Image Credit: Getty Images) The New England Patriots are in controversy again, this time, it’s about their hiring process for a new head coach.

Ryan Clark, a one-time Super Bowl champion and current ESPN NFL analyst, ripped the New England Patriots for how they complied with the Rooney Rule during their head-coaching search. The NFL’s ...

The NFL adopted the rule named after late Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney in 2003. Under the policy, NFL teams were initially required to interview at least one or more diverse candidates for ...

A group led by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller is arguing the NFL’s “Rooney Rule,” which requires teams to interview at least one minority candidate during the hiring process, is racist ...

Key Background The Rooney Rule was adopted in 2003, named after then-Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney, who was chairman of the league’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.

The NFL’s Rooney Rule has existed for more than two decades. Let’s look at how effective it has been at forcing football teams to interview external minority candidates to fill prominent ...

Then there’s the Rooney Rule. Created with good intentions in 2003 to encourage NFL owners to hire more Black head coaches (and since expanded to encourage more ethnic-minority candidates for ...

Here's what the Rooney Rule requires now: 1. The NFL requires every team to interview at least two external minority candidates for open head coaching positions and at least one external minority ...

The Rooney Rule has been in place for more than two decades, but a Yale Law paper co-authored by DeMaurice Smith argues it's merely been a suggestion.