ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The Atlanta Falcons have fired assistant defensive line coach LaTroy Lewis after “allegations” against him came to light.
Lewis had been on the job for just over two weeks.
The team announced Lewis’ firing on Friday afternoon in a brief statement, saying: “The Atlanta Falcons have dismissed assistant defensive line coach LaTroy Lewis from his role.”
Earlier Friday, the Falcons sent Atlanta News First a statement saying: “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.”
The allegations date to Lewis’ time at the University of Michigan, where he served as a graduate assistant for the 2022 season before being promoted to assistant defensive line coach for the next two seasons.
“The Ann Arbor Police Department was just recently made aware of allegations regarding a sexual assault reported to have occurred on December 5, 2024,” Ann Arbor Police spokesman Chris Page said. “The suspect in this investigation is LaTroy Lewis.”
“The AAPD Detective Bureau launched an immediate investigation into the incident. This investigation remains active and ongoing.”
Karen Truszkowski, the attorney of the woman accusing Lewis of sexual assault, said her client filed an incident report with Ann Arbor police and requested a protective order against Lewis.
The woman and Lewis connected on a dating app in July 2024, and she claims his behavior became aggressive via text message and phone calls, according to Truszkowski. They met for the first time at an Ann Arbor hotel in December 2024, when she told police Lewis that raped her, according to Truszkowski.
The Milford (Michigan) Police Department responded the next month to a 911 call from the woman’s neighbors, who heard raised voices, according to Truszkowski. The attorney said her client and Lewis told the police that their argument was not physical.
Truszkowski said her client told Milford police that Lewis was a coach at Michigan, saying she didn’t want to talk about it. She was afraid to tell the police at the time that Lewis had physically abused her, according to Truszkowski.
On Feb. 10, the Falcons announced they were hiring Lewis, who had spent the 2025 season as the defensive line coach at Toledo following three seasons (2022-24) at Michigan, where he was part of the team’s 2023 National Championship.
The Akron, Ohio, native began his coaching career in 2020 as a graduate assistant at Akron, where he mainly worked with outside linebackers, the Falcons said in a press release announcing his hiring.
Lewis then spent the 2021 season at South Alabama as a defensive graduate assistant, working primarily with special teams and nickelbacks. He spent the 2022 season as a special teams analyst at Wake Forest.
Before that, Lewis played defensive line at the University of Tennessee from 2013-16, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology. He played two seasons in the NFL with the Oakland Raiders (2017), Houston Texans (2017-18) and Tennessee Titans (2018).
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