Jeff Fisher issues response to Jon Gruden’s Michael Sam email

Jeff Fisher on Tuesday issued a response on social media to an accusation made in one of the leaked Jon Gruden emails.

Gruden resigned on Monday as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after numerous offensive emails he wrote from his personal account were leaked to the media and became public. One of the offensive emails Gruden wrote to his friend and former coworker, Bruce Allen, on Allen’s work email address, was about Fisher and the Rams.

According to emails leaked to the New York Times, Gruden wrote to Allen that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell “should not have pressured Jeff Fisher, then the coach of the Rams, to draft ‘queers,’ a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team in 2014.”

Fisher was the head coach of the Rams when Sam was selected with the No. 249 pick in the 2014 draft. Sam, who was openly gay at the time, played college ball at Missouri, and was a “hometown pick” for the then-St. Louis Rams.

Fisher said in a statement that Sam was drafted based on his credentials as a football player.