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Rooney Rule proposal involving draft picks doesn't get at heart of NFL's diversity problem – team owners

NFL team owners think NFL team owners are not hiring enough minorities as general managers, head coaches and even assistant coaches.

NFL team owners think this is such a failure by NFL team owners that the NFL team owners are scheduled to vote next week on a resolution that will incentivize NFL team owners to hire more minorities via a bizarre system that is designed to reward teams with improved draft positions and even compensatory picks (although in some cases, it could actually add hurdles to minority hirings).

Essentially, NFL team owners are saying that NFL team owners are so prejudiced that the only way NFL team owners won’t be prejudiced is if they are given a competitive advantage to be less prejudiced.