The 49ers promote diversity in executive positions and this has been beneficial in more ways than one.
49ers chief executive Martin Mayhew is set to become the next general manager of the Washington Football Team, a league source confirmed to NBC Sports Bay Area on Thursday.
ESPN’s John Keim first reported news that Mayhew has been appointed by Washington.
Mayhew has spent the past four seasons with the 49ers, two as vice president of player staff and the previous two years (2017-’18) as senior staff manager of the team.
Prior to his 49ers career, Mayhew spent time with the New York Giants (2016) and Detroit Lions (2001-2015) as executive. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 1988 as a baseline before playing for Washington (1898-1992) and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1993-1996), where he played alongside John Lynch, general manager of the 49ers.
Earlier this week, former 49ers defense coordinator Robert Saleh was officially announced as the head coach of the New York Jets. The 49ers will be compensated for both promotions from minority candidates to executive roles as part of the NFL’s effort to promote diversity in hiring.
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For each appointment of a minority candidate to an executive role, the original club will receive two third-round compensatory selections that will take place over two consecutive seasons. The 49ers will receive one choice in 2021 and the second in 2022 for Saleh as head coach.
As a club two minority candidates appointed over one year will only receive them one third compensatory choice for the second lease. The choice would be in the third consecutive season, which will take place for the 49ers in 2023.
(If Mayhew had been appointed in 2022, the 49ers would have received two compensatory third-round picks that would take place in 2023 and 2024.)
This choice is in addition to the compensatory choice that a club will regularly receive for the loss of free agents. So there will be more than the standard 256 draft picks in the following NFL drafts.
Here is the full resolution:
2020 DECISION JC-2A
While member clubs believe that policies designed to promote equal employment opportunities and a diverse and inclusive workforce promote important league interests, including improved decision-making, improved business performance, and the representation of the NFL as an employer of choice based on appoint and promote earnings. ; and
WHEREAS the member clubs have adopted policies spanning several decades to further these objectives, including policies designed to enable upward mobility and promotion of club employees, in particular those in coaching and football activities; and
WHEREAS the member clubs consider it appropriate to take additional steps to enhance employment and promotion opportunities for minorities and women in key positions, including leadership roles in coaching, staff and football activities,
Should it be decided that the league policy on equal employment and diversity in the workplace will be amended as follows:
(i) The employer club of a minority employee appointed by another club as its head coach or head football manager (general manager) receives draft compensation in the form of a compensatory draft in the third round in each of the following two drafts for ‘ an employee who has been appointed as a head coach or a head football manager, or for the next three drafts has been appointed as two employees for both positions. The reference to the appointment of employees in “both positions” may be by the same club or different clubs. The following applies to the Draft Choice Compensation:
a. Any compensatory draft allocations granted under this policy will, at the end of the third round, follow all compensatory draft allocations granted to clubs under Annex V of the NFL-NFLPA Collective Bargaining Agreement.
b. If compensating draft choices are awarded to multiple clubs under this policy, the order of the selections at the end of the third round follows the original selection order for the draft that preceded any trade or other adjustments.
(ii) The Employers’ Club is eligible to receive this Draft Choice Compensation if:
a. The minority employee who has been appointed as a head coach or head football manager has been employed by the employers’ club for at least two full seasons; and
b. The minority employee is not the head coach or head football manager of the work club and is appointed to the same position as the new club. There can be no interruption in the service between clubs.