to create the Rooney Rule 2.0. Instead, using Smith’s experience as executive director of the NFL Players’ Association for the last 14 years and his background as a lawyer, they wrote the 100 ...

As Dallas begins sorting through candidates, the Rooney Rule will surely become a key topic of discussion. What exactly is the Rooney Rule, and how have the Cowboys fared under the policy in the past?

The NFL installed the Rooney Rule in 2003 with the best of intentions behind it. Within the last few years, the league has tweaked it multiple times to strengthen the instrument known across ...

With that comes a look back at the NFL hiring practices over the years, starting with the Rooney Rule. The two-decade-old policy is considered one of the league’s most notable and notorious ...

The legacy we’re talking about here is the Rooney Rule. The rule basically says that NFL teams must interview at least one ethnic minority or female candidate for the HC or senior football ...

Without enforcement, the Rooney Rule failed to create equitable opportunities for Black coaches. Then it spread to corporate America and fell short there, too. Warning: This graphic requires ...

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 ...

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 Rooney Rule was meant to increase the number of minority interviews – and thus actual opportunity for those coaches – in the NFL. In many ways it has achieved just that. Yet, some teams ...

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 has been in place for more than 20 years as a way to help ensure that minority coaching candidates get a fair shot at jobs. But as time has gone on it's increasingly become a ...