NFL updates, enhances Rooney rule

The NFL has updated the Rooney Rule for 2020 and beyond.

Effective immediately, the NFL will require clubs to interview "at least two external minority candidates for head coach openings and one minority candidate for any coordinator job," per NFL Network's Tom Pelissero.

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The Rooney Rule, named after former Steelers owner and chairman of the NFL's diversity committee Dan Rooney, was instituted in 2003 following the firings of coaches Tony Dungy and Dennis Green after the 2002 season. Under the Rooney Rule initially, NFL teams were required to interview at least one minority candidate for all head coaching vacancies. In 2009, that was expanded to include general manager/senior…