{"id":433604,"date":"2024-10-30T17:28:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T21:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=433604"},"modified":"2024-10-30T17:28:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T21:28:37","slug":"auburn-db-transfer-from-alabama-dismissed-from-team-per-report","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/auburn-football\/auburn-db-transfer-from-alabama-dismissed-from-team-per-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn DB, transfer from Alabama, dismissed from team, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn defensive back Antonio Kite, a transfer from Alabama, has reportedly been dismissed from Hugh Freeze&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>Jay G. Tate of Auburn Sports on Rivals reports that missed practices led to Kite getting the boot from the Tigers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"> KITE DISMISSED <\/p>\n<p>Auburn defensive back Antonio Kite has been dismissed from the team for missing practice on multiple occasions, AuburnSports has learned.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HImHNT5UTx\">https:\/\/t.co\/HImHNT5UTx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>: Zach Bland\/Auburn U. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pj4N5bKDCP\">pic.twitter.com\/Pj4N5bKDCP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jay G. Tate  (@JayGTate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayGTate\/status\/1851726708522573835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A product of Anniston (Alabama) High School, Kite was rated 4-stars, the No. 9 player in the state and No. 167 prospect overall in the 2022 recruiting class on the 247Sports Composite. He signed with Nick Saban&#8217;s program over scholarship offers from 15 other programs.<\/p>\n<p>Kite made just 2 appearances for Alabama during the 2022 season, taking a redshirt. In 2023, Kite was a special teams contributor and depth piece in the secondary, logging playing time in 7 contests.<\/p>\n<p>After 2 seasons in Tuscaloosa, Kite entered the transfer portal and landed on The Plains. At AU, Kite played in 5 games of the 2024 campaign. Tate&#8217;s report notes that Kite has logged only 5 defensive snaps since Auburn&#8217;s Sept. 21 game against Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn is 3-5 on the season entering the Week 10 game against Vanderbilt. The Kite-less Tiger defense is tasked with containing familiar foe Diego Pavia, now the quarterback of the Commodores after transferring from New Mexico State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn reportedly dismisses DB transfer from Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193079,"featured_media":383590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-433604","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-auburn-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/433604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}