As teams begin to shift focus into the 2025 offseason, the league currently features six head coaches of color. Former ...

Super Bowl champion Ryan Clark blasted the New England Patriots on "Inside the NFL" for how they complied with the NFL's ...

The Rooney Rule is an NFL policy that requires teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior ...

Ryan Clark, former Super Bowl champion and ESPN analyst, criticizes the New England Patriots for their handling of the Rooney ...

The NFL’s Rooney Rule, established in 2003, aims to promote diversity in coaching and front office positions by requiring teams to interview at least two external minority candidates for head ...

NFL teams must also abide by the Rooney Rule, the league’s policy that requires teams to interview candidates from minority groups for head coach, general manager and executive positions.

Former NFL GM Rod Graves criticized the Patriots' usage of the Rooney Rule by interviewing two black candidates before hiring ...

Although there are eight teams still playing the most important games of the NFL season ... This is the largely unfixable problem with the Rooney Rule. There is no rule that is going to solve ...

In searching for the successor to Jerod Mayo, the Patriots adhered to the NFL’s Rooney Rule — but one former front office executive is not thrilled with how the process played out.

“The NFL’s Rooney Rule has been around for years, but watching teams blatantly sidestep its intent never stops being frustrating. The #Patriots checked the box by interviewing Byron Leftwich ...

NFL insiders Josina Anderson and Albert Breer ... if the Patriots were doing this just to comply with the Rooney Rule and nothing else. Then, Josina Anderson chimed in on the situation.