Gregory-Smith, Ian; Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafeal - 2022
This paper examines discrimination in the NFL draft. The NFL is a favourable empirical setting to examine the role of …'s career, even if discrimination plays only a marginal role in selection, there could be a large discriminatory impact. We … performance at a marque selection event (the NFL combine), we do not find robust evidence of racial discrimination in NFL drafting …