NFL owners are upset that the 49ers are reaping too many benefits from hiring individuals of color.
According to ESPN’s Seth Wickersham, NFL owners are allegedly dissatisfied with the way the San Francisco 49ers have profited from employing individuals of color for managerial and coaching roles.
A Wednesday-published profile of Niners head coach Kyle Shanahan omits this particular detail. Although the passage’s context calls attention to Shanahan’s excellent talent detection skills, the anecdote actually reveals a source of annoyance among the league’s billionaire elite.
Owners have actually complained to the league office about the 49ers receiving so many compensatory selections for acting as a conduit for coaches and executives of color. “We know he can hire effectively and diversified,” Wickersham wrote.
The Niners had the maximum amount of compensatory picks in the 2023 NFL Draft with seven. Three of those — all third-round selections — were awarded because of the NFL’s minority hiring incentive. It’s a process that began in 2020 in which the NFL awards teams picks for losing minority coaches, or top executives, to another team.
Over the past three seasons, the Niners have lost Robert Saleh, Mike McDaniel, DeMeco Ryans, Martin Mayhew and Ran Carthon. The first three got head coaching jobs of their own after their respective tenures as a 49ers coordinator, and the last two left for executive positions after time in San Francisco’s front office. It’s no surprise then that the three the team got last year was the maximum allowed under the NFL’s policy.
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