The Atlanta Falcons fired assistant coach LaTroy Lewis on Friday, hours after the organization said it was looking into sexual assault allegations going back to his years at the University of Michigan.
The team, which had hired him earlier this month, issued a terse 14-word statement on its website: "The Atlanta Falcons have dismissed assistant defensive line coach LaTroy Lewis from his role."
The Falcons said added in a separate statement Friday before the termination: “We are aware of allegations regarding LaTroy Lewis. We are in the process of gathering information and will have no further comment at this time.”
His bio on the team site was quickly scrubbed.
Lewis, who was hired Feb. 10, was fired after podcast host Justin Spiro disclosed claims of a sexual assault by a woman who alleged Lewis attacked her in separate incidents during his time on the University of Michigan staff in 2023-24.
Asked about Lewis, Ann Arbor police responded with a statement that did not name him: “The Ann Arbor Police Department was just recently made aware of allegations regarding a sexual assault reported to have occurred on December 5, 2024.
"The AAPD Detective Bureau launched an immediate investigation into the incident. This investigation remains active and ongoing.”
It is against department policy to disclose the name of a potential offender until the person has been formally charged with a crime, police said.
Lewis’ defense attorney Fabiola Galguera said in a statement: "Allegations of sexual misconduct are not proof of sexual misconduct.
"It is essential to pass judgment based on facts, and the facts are currently not being presented to the public. Mr. Lewis intends to fiercely fight these false allegations with the support of his wife, family, and my team.”
Lewis was on the same staff as Sherrone Moore, who was a Wolverines assistant under head coach Jim Harbaugh before he took control of the program in 2024.
Moore, who is married, was fired in December after allegations that he had an inappropriate relationship with a staff member emerged. He is alleged to have then barged into the former lover’s home and threatened to kill himself, telling her that his “blood is on your hands,” prosecutors said Friday.
He was arrested and book on suspicion of felony home invasion and two other misdemeanors.
Lewis, 32, appeared to be a rising star in the coaching ranks, having spent just one season (2025) as defensive line coach at the University of Toledo before he jumped to the NFL. His Rockets were the Mid-American Conference's toughest run defenders and recorded the league's most sacks.
Lewis was a linebacker at the University of Tennessee and then bounced around the NFL, doing time on the practice squads of the Oakland Raiders, the Houston Texans and the Tennessee Titans.
He got on the field with the Texans, playing in two contests in 2017, recording three tackles, one of them a sack.
