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.”

“We are aware of allegations regarding LaTroy Lewis,” the Falcons added in a separate statement on Friday before the termination. “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, hired on Feb. 10, was fired after podcast host Justin Spiro disclosed claims of a sexual assault by a woman who alleged the coach attacked her in separate incidents during his time at the University of Michigan staff in 2023-24.

When asked about Lewis, the 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,” a police spokesperson said in a statement to NBC News.

“The AAPD Detective Bureau launched an immediate investigation into the incident. This investigation remains active and ongoing.”

It’s against department policy to disclose the name of a potential offender until that person is formally charged with a crime, police said.

“Allegations of sexual misconduct are not proof of sexual misconduct,” according to a statement by Lewis’ defense attorney Fabiola Galguera.

“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 Jim Harbaugh before taking control of the program in 2024.

The married Moore was fired in December 2025 after allegations that he had an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. He then allegedly barged into that 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 coaching ranks having spent just one season (2025) as defensive line coach at the University of Toledo, before jumping to the NFL. His Rockets were the MAC’s toughest run defenders and recorded the league’s most sacks.

In is playing days, Lewis was a linebacker at the University of Tennessee and then bounced around the NFL, doing time on practice squads of the Oakland Raiders, Houston Texans and Tennessee Titans.

He got on the field with the Texans, playing in two contests in 2017, recording three tackles, one of them a sack.