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While the percentage of black NFL players currently hovers around 70%, the corresponding percentage of black NFL coaches currently hovers around 6%.
New data, though, demonstrates that the decline in African-America players, while steep, isn't as precipitous as widely believed. The accepted wisdom is that the high-water mark was reached in 1975, when it was reported that 27 percent of big leaguers were African-Americans.