{"id":6790,"date":"2026-02-27T20:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:17:31","slug":"falcons-dismiss-assistant-dl-coach-latroy-lewis-following-allegations-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6790","title":{"rendered":"Falcons dismiss assistant DL coach LaTroy Lewis following allegations of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em>Content warning: <\/em><\/strong><em>This article contains allegations of sexual assault.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Falcons have dismissed defensive line coach LaTroy Lewis from his role, <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/news\/atlanta-falcons-dismiss-latroy-lewis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the team announced on Friday;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the team announced on Friday<\/a>. His dismissal follows an <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DarkoStateNews\/status\/2027164773855436986\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:initial report from Darko State News;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">initial report from Darko State News<\/a> stating that Lewis had been accused of rape dating back to his time at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Ann Arbor Police Department has reportedly <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marcraimondi\/status\/2027451950208311740?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:confirmed with ESPN;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">confirmed with ESPN<\/a> that it is investigating sexual assault allegations against Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons stated that they were aware of the allegations and were in the process of gathering information before letting Lewis go on Friday. The team recently hired Lewis to work under new head coach Kevin Stefanski&#8217;s coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis was the defensive line coach at the University of Toledo in the 2025 season following his stint with the Wolverines.<\/p>\n<p><em>This breaking news story will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/breaking-news\/article\/falcons-reportedly-dismiss-dl-coach-latroy-lewis-following-allegations-of-rape-assault-201153803.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: This article contains allegations of sexual assault. The Atlanta Falcons have dismissed defensive line coach LaTroy Lewis from his role, the team announced on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}