Ever since details of the NFL’s controversial proposal incentivizing teams to hire minorities first leaked last week, much of the coverage surrounding the league’s diversity issue has revolved around that very topic, so much so that it has been easy to miss the other significant development that sprang from the same fountain of inclusion.
That development, which was announced Tuesday, was the NFL’s decision to implement the most sweeping expansion to the much-maligned Rooney Rule since it was created in 2002.
Teams will now be required to interview at least two external minority candidates for a head coaching job instead of one.