NFL Revamps Rooney Rule to Include Quarterbacks Coaches

Baylor defensive back JT Woods prepares to run the 40-yard dash at the NFL football scouting combine, Sunday, March 6, 2022, in Indianapolis. Indianapolis will be keeping the NFL scouting combine for the next two years. At the owners meetings in Atlanta on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, the city that has staged the winter event since 1987 for players entering the draft was granted hosting rights for 2023 and 2024. This was the first time the NFL put the combine up for bidding, with Dallas and Los Angeles also seeking to hold the combine. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

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By Associated Press

May 24, 2022 at 3:47 PM UTC

Updated on

May 24, 2022 at 10:33 PM UTC

(AP) -- The NFL has expanded the Rooney Rule again, this time to include quarterbacks coaches in a further effort to diversify the coaching ranks.

The change was announced Tuesday at the owners meeting in Atlanta by Jonathan Beane, the NFL’s senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer. The oft-criticized Rooney Rule, adopted in 2003 to enhance opportunities for minorities to gain head coaching jobs and enhanced several times to include front office positions, now will requires one minority or female candidate from another team to be interviewed for quarterbacks coach. Previously, the rule covered head coach, general manager and all coordinator jobs.