Ex NFL Dolphins Coach Brian Flores Is Joined By Coaches Ray Horton & Steve Wilks In Ongoing Discrimination Lawsuit Against The NFL

Ray Horton, Brian Flores, Steve Wilks

Ex NFL Dolphins Coach Brian Flores Is Joined By Coaches Ray Horton & Steve Wilks In Ongoing Discrimination Lawsuit Against The NFL

The discrimination lawsuit against the NFL is gaining steam.

Defensive assistant coach Ray Horton and former Arizona Cardinals head coach Steve Wilks have joined Brian Flores as plaintiffs in the discrimination case.

In February of this year, Brian Flores, who was fired by the Dolphins earlier this year, alleged in a lawsuit that the NFL and its teams engage in “systemic racial discrimination” in their hiring and firing of minority coaches. Additionally, Flores claims that he was offered $100,000 to throw football games, and was passed up for a head coach position by a less qualified white male counterpart.

Brian Flores

Now, two additional former coaches are corroborating Flores‘ story with similar accounts. In an amended complaint submitted Thursday (April 7th), former Cleveland Browns defensive assistant coach Ray Horton alleges the same of the Tennessee Titans. Horton says he interviewed with the team for their 2016 head coaching position, despite already promising the job to their interim head coach Mike Mularkey.

The second coach joining Flores‘ lawsuit is secondary Carolina Panthers coach Steve Wilks. He alleges that he was “unfairly and discriminatorily fired” by the Cardinals in 2018 after only one season. Referencing why he decided to join the case, Wilks stated:

“When Coach Flores filed this action, I knew I owed it to myself, and to all Black NFL coaches and aspiring coaches, to stand with him….This lawsuit has shed further important light on a problem that we all know exists, but that too few are willing to confront.”

Steve Wilks

Also included in the lawsuits amendments, were new allegations that the Houston Texans and Dolphins have retaliated against Flores since the original filing took place.

All teams mentioned in the suit have since denied the claims made against them. An initial hearing for the case is set for April 29th.

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