As first reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Carolina Panthers defensive game passing coordinator and secondary coach Steve Wilks has joined Brian Flores’ discrimination lawsuit against the NFL.
In the amended complaints, Wilks alleges he was unfairly and discriminatorily fired by the Arizona Cardinals following the 2018 campaign. Arizona hired Wilks as head coach that year, only to dismiss him that very same season in what the 52-year-old described as a no-win situation.
“Mr. Wilks was replaced by a white coach, Kliff Kingsbury, who had no prior NFL coaching experience and was coming off of multiple losing seasons as a Head Coach at Texas Tech,” per the complaint. “Mr. Kingsbury, armed with quarterback Kyler Murray, has been given a much longer leash than Mr. Wilks and, to his credit, has succeeded. That said, Mr. Wilks, given the same opportunity afforded to Mr. Kingsbury, surely would have succeeded as well.”
