NFL Accelerator Program once focused on DEI returns and more than half of the participants are White

The story about the NFL's Accelerator Program, which kicks off Monday to introduce up-and-coming coaches and front-office people to club owners with the hope it increases their future hiring opportunities, should be different.

It should be that two former quarterbacks — Josh McCown and Mike Kafka — are in the program hoping to become head coaches.

It should be that Catherine Hickman, a female and a Canadian, is in the program as she eyes an NFL general manager job.

It should be that former head or interim head coaches ...