The Denver Summit has fired Allen Cross, dismissing the club’s defensive coordinator in a significant staff move during the latest DFL transaction window.

Cross’s departure removes the coach responsible for the Summit’s defensive operation from the staff. The transaction is one of the more notable personnel developments across the DFL’s latest cycle, placing Denver’s coaching structure at the center of the league’s roster and staff news.

The Summit also logged a second coaching dismissal in the same window. Taken together, the moves represent a clear change within Denver’s staff, though the available transaction information does not establish the roles affected beyond Cross’s position as defensive coordinator.

Coaching decisions can carry broad practical implications for a club because they affect the staff charged with preparing players, organizing game plans and overseeing day-to-day football operations. In Cross’s case, the immediate confirmed development is the end of his tenure as Denver’s defensive coordinator.

No replacement for Cross is identified in the available transaction record. There is also no confirmed information accompanying the firing on a transition plan, a revised staff alignment or the club’s next step at defensive coordinator.

The timing makes the Summit’s decision stand out in a DFL cycle that has also included player-development updates. Those individual training developments are separate from Denver’s staff actions and do not provide a stated explanation for the coaching changes.

For the Summit, the firings create an immediate personnel question: how the club will proceed after removing two coaches from its staff. The available information confirms the dismissals but does not connect them to a particular result, performance measure, internal disagreement or broader organizational decision.

That distinction is important as coaching news moves quickly across the league. A firing is a concrete transaction, while conclusions about why it happened or what it will mean on the field require further confirmed information. At present, the known facts are limited to Denver’s decision to part ways with Cross and another coach during the same window.

Cross now becomes a former Summit assistant following the dismissal. Denver, meanwhile, will move forward with a defensive coordinator vacancy created by the transaction.

The DFL’s latest cycle has featured routine player movement and development news alongside larger staff decisions. Denver’s removal of its defensive coordinator belongs in the latter category because it changes a leadership position tied directly to one side of the ball.

Further developments, including any staff appointments or additional personnel moves, would clarify the Summit’s next direction. Until then, Cross’s firing stands as the central confirmed development: Denver has made a coaching change at defensive coordinator.