In an attempt to incentivize the hiring of minority coaches and GMs across the league, as only two of the 32 current NFL general managers are people of color, the NFL is presenting a plan to owners that would reward organizations for hiring minority candidates to high-level positions.
According to an NFL.com report published on Friday, the league will present two resolutions to owners during a meeting on Tuesday. One resolution would disallow the practice of blocking coaches from interviewing for coordinator jobs with other teams. The other resolution, sure to be much more polarizing, would establish a reward system for hiring and retaining coaches of color
Via NFL.com:
“If a team hires a minority head coach, that team, in the draft preceding the coach’s second season, would move up six spots from where it is slotted to pick in the third round. A team would jump 10 spots under the same scenario for hiring a person of color as its primary football executive, a position more commonly known as general manager.
If a team were to fill both positions with diverse candidates in the same year, that club could jump 16 spots — six for the coach, 10 for the GM — and potentially move from the top of the third round to the middle of the second round. Another incentive: a team’s fourth-round pick would climb five spots in the draft preceding the coach’s or GM’s third year if he is still with the team.”
The resolution would also reward teams for hiring a minority quarterbacks coach, and reward teams that have minority assistant coaches or minority head coaches hired away with compensatory draft picks. You can see all the details here.
