When Mike Tomlin was hired by the Steelers in 2007, he was one of six minority head coaches in the NFL.
Now, more than a decade later, despite the league's adoption of the Rooney Rule in 2003 to help foster more minority hirings in a league that is predominantly comprised of black players, there are four minority head coaches in the NFL.
NFL owners recently tabled a proposal by its own Diversity Committee, on which Steelers president Art Rooney II sits, that would have offered incentives for teams who hired minorities in leadership positions.