Two original founders of the NFL's Rooney Rule told ESPN they agree with commissioner Roger Goodell that the league's efforts ...

The National Football League now has more coaches of color than ever, but it also puts potential coaches who are men of color through the wringer by setting them up ...

The Bears have shown a commitment to diversity, but what about the league as a whole? Word is out that the "End Racism" message will be erased from the end zone of the Super Bowl because President ...

As of 2022, the Rooney Rule now includes women as part of the minority candidate definition. According to the NFL, teams are required to interview at least two minority candidates for head coach ...

That's something the Patriots are now accused of following their hiring of Mike Vrabel and it hasn't gone without scrutiny on social media: "The Patriots made a mockery of the Rooney Rule and ...

Mike Vrabel landed the job, but some people, including former NFL executive Rod Graves, aren’t convinced the team followed the spirit of the Rooney Rule. Did the Patriots check the diversity box ...

Although there are eight teams still playing the most important games of the NFL season ... This is the largely unfixable problem with the Rooney Rule. There is no rule that is going to solve ...

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 ...

Two original founders of the NFL's Rooney Rule told ESPN they agree with commissioner Roger Goodell that the league's efforts on diversity are bearing fruit, but they say there's more work to do.

Still, the league must keep trying to do better, according to Cyrus Mehri and John Wooten, whose work led to implementation of the Rooney Rule in 2003. Mehri said the ranks of NFL offensive ...