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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the
league needs to re-evaluate its approach to minority hiring
after an offseason coaching cycle that saw only one of 10 head
coaching jobs go to a minority and none to Black candidates.
“We need to continue to make progress,” Goodell said Monday. “I
believe that and I believe diversity is good for us. ... I think
we have become a more diverse league across every platform,
including coaching. But we still have more work to do.”
The NFL will have only three Black head coaches next season.
There were 10 head coach openings this season and none of them
were filled by a Black coach. Robert Saleh, who is of Lebanese
descent, was the only minority to get a job when he was hired by
Tennessee.
This was just the fifth time since the start of the Rooney Rule
in 2003 that no Black head coaches were hired during an
offseason coaching cycle. The only other time it happened in a
year with more than five changes came in 2013 when there were
eight openings.
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