https://news.yahoo.com/nfl-require-female-minority-offensive-150758943.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall
march 29 2022 The NFL has announced a requirement for all of its 32 teams to hire a female or minority offensive assistant coach for the 2022 season.
The league's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee shared that under the new policy the coaching hires must work closely with their teams' head coaches and offensive staffs, saying the goal of the mandate is to increase minority participation within coaching staffs and produce future head-coaching candidates.
Coaches hired through the new initiative will be paid through a league-wide fund for two years.
"It's a recognition that at the moment, when you look at stepping stones for a head coach, they are the coordinator positions," committee chairman Art Rooney II, the owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers, said during Monday's league meeting, at which NFL owners adopted the new policy.
"We clearly have a trend where coaches are coming from the offensive side of the ball in recent years, and we clearly do not have as many minorities in the offensive coordinator [job]."
The league also adjusted the language of its Rooney Rule mandate to include women, now saying that they can satisfy team requirements to interview two minorities for top positions such as head coaching and front office roles.
