40%
According to the Huffington Post, 70% of NFL players are black.
31%
80%
78% of the players in the nfl in 2009 were black.
1960
Walter Peyton
Charles Follis was believed to be the first black player in the NFL from 1902 to 1906. Between 1920 and 1926, there were only nine black people that played in the NFL, making Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall the first black players in the NFL in 1920.
643 50 percent of them
The Philadelphia Eagles.
why are there two different set of rules in the NFL? when is concerns black players and non-black players example; Rothisburger vs. Vick.
While the percentage of African-Americans in the United States stands at about 13%, the percentage of players in the NFL who are African-American is much higher. Roughly about 2/3 (66%) of the NFL is currently African-American.