NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed on Monday that the NFL will continue its diversity efforts, despite the Trump ...

Former Pittsburgh Steelers free safety Ryan Clark thinks the Rooney Rule has become a complete joke. That was made evident with the New England Patriots bringing in Pep Hamilton and Byron Leftwich for ...

It looked like a clear example of a team interviewing minority candidates for the sake of satisfying the Rooney Rule more ... Patriots owner Robert Kraft has always gone outside the box with ...

But how the organization and Robert and Jonathan Kraft got there ... but they also knew they had to adhere to the Rooney Rule. The Patriots wasted no time interviewing Pep Hamilton and Byron ...

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 ... owned by Robert Kraft, reportedly ...

The NFL installed the Rooney Rule in 2003 with the best of intentions ... the details of a deal to make Liam Coen its next coach. Robert Saleh, the first Lebanese-American head coach in NFL ...

While the Patriots did obey the rule, Graves alleges that owner Robert Kraft and company only ever ... via Reuters Con “I recognize that the [Rooney Rule] is a challenge from time to time ...

After Robert Kraft fired Jerod Mayo on Sunday after ... if the Patriots were doing this just to comply with the Rooney Rule and nothing else. Then, Josina Anderson chimed in on the situation.

The NFL's Rooney Rule has been in place for more than ... hiring Jerod Mayo last year — who is Black. With that said, Robert Kraft decided to move on from him after just one season in which ...

Robert Kraft is officially hiring Mike Vrabel ... That said, the team seems to have blatantly flouted the Rooney Rule in order to get its man, and Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Aaron Glenn ...

According to the NFL’s Rooney Rule, teams must interview at ... go forward with hiring somebody.” Patriots owner Robert Kraft said this week that he plans to move fast with the coaching ...

Per a report from Boston Herald's Andrew Callahan and Doug Kyed, multiple people in the building "disapproved" of owner Robert Kraft's handling of the Rooney Rule. Rather than going through an ...