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NFL Approves Significant Changes To Rooney Rule, But Tables Most Controversial Proposal

The league conducted a virtual owners meeting earlier today, part of which entailed the voting on two resolutions to expand the scope and authority behind the Rooney Rule, which promotes diversity hiring at the head coaching and head executive levels of the NFL (and has also been applied to other industries).

One proposal passed; the other was tabled to a later date. Despite previous reports that the league was intensely lobbying for and believed it had the support to pass it, the more controversial proposal that would see teams gain a boost in draft pick positioning by hiring minorities to head coach or general manager jobs has not passed at this time, but will be revisited at a later date.