Two original founders of the NFL's Rooney Rule told ESPN they agree with commissioner Roger Goodell that the league's efforts on diversity are bearing fruit, but they say there's more work to do.

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The NFL installed the Rooney Rule in 2003 with the best of intentions behind it. Within the last few years, the league has tweaked it multiple times to strengthen the instrument known across ...

Mike Vrabel landed the job, but some people, including former NFL executive Rod Graves, aren’t convinced the team followed the spirit of the Rooney Rule. Did the Patriots check the diversity box ...

The Rooney Rule was meant to increase the number of minority interviews – and thus actual opportunity for those coaches – in the NFL. In many ways it has achieved just that. Yet, some teams ...

Ryan Clark, a one-time Super Bowl champion and current ESPN NFL analyst, ripped the New England Patriots for how they complied with the Rooney Rule during their head-coaching search. The NFL’s ...

The Dallas Cowboys hired Brian Schottenheimer and Shannon Sharpe claims they faked interest in Deion Sanders because of ...

The Rooney Rule is an NFL policy that requires teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs. The rule was created to help coaches who ...

"There certainly can be a debate as to whether or not they went through a fair Rooney Rule process in hiring Mike Vrabel," Graves said, adding that he fully understands that the former Titans ...

In his pre-Super Bowl news conference this week in New Orleans, Goodell said the league remained committed to the Rooney Rule, not because it is a "trend" but because it is "the right thing" to ...