{"id":26147,"date":"2026-06-24T02:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/wide-receiver-duke-smith-no-longer-part-of-auburn-football-program-montgomery-advertiser\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:48:40","slug":"wide-receiver-duke-smith-no-longer-part-of-auburn-football-program-montgomery-advertiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/wide-receiver-duke-smith-no-longer-part-of-auburn-football-program-montgomery-advertiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Wide receiver Duke Smith no longer part of Auburn football program &#8211; Montgomery Advertiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUBURN \u2014 <a data-id=https:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/sports\/college\/auburn\/2026\/04\/18\/who-were-voted-the-three-mvps-of-auburn-footballs-2026-a-day\/89552453007\/ data-type=link href=https:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/sports\/college\/auburn\/2026\/04\/18\/who-were-voted-the-three-mvps-of-auburn-footballs-2026-a-day\/89552453007\/>Duke Smith<\/a>, a rising redshirt freshman, is no longer with the <a data-id=https:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/sports\/college\/auburn\/2026\/06\/23\/auburn-football-defensive-line-2026\/90526209007\/ data-type=link href=https:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/sports\/college\/auburn\/2026\/06\/23\/auburn-football-defensive-line-2026\/90526209007\/>Auburn football<\/a> program, a team spokesperson confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser on Tuesday, June 23.<br \/>Smith is no longer listed on the program&#8217;s <a data-id=https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/football\/roster data-type=link href=https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/football\/roster>roster<\/a>. He&#8217;s the second player to depart the program this offseason, joining safety <a data-id=https:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/sports\/college\/auburn\/2026\/04\/28\/jack-luttrell-auburn-football\/89019278007\/ data-type=link href=https:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/sports\/college\/auburn\/2026\/04\/28\/jack-luttrell-auburn-football\/89019278007\/>Jack Luttrell<\/a>.<br \/>In <a data-autotag=c21b4b23-e879-47f2-9a3e-abc30ff7e51d href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/auburn-tigers\/3480\/ target=_blank>Auburn<\/a>&#8216;s A-Day game, Smith had 84 receiving yards and a touchdown pass. He out-did his totals as a true freshman, where he played in four games. He recorded just one reception in that span, and it went for negative yards.<br \/>Smith was a standout at Southside High School, where he recorded 2,523 total yards and 23 touchdowns as a junior.<br \/><em>Adam Cole is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at <\/em><a href=mailto:acole@gannett.com><em>acole@gannett.com<\/em><\/a><em> or on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, <\/em><a href=https:\/\/x.com\/colereporter><em>@colereporter<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> <em>To support Adam&#8217;s work, please <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubscribe.montgomeryadvertiser.com%2Foffers%3Fgps-source%3DCPNEWS%26itm_content%3Dsubspromo&#038;data=05%7C02%7CACole%40montgome.gannett.com%7Cd563015988a0462897c208dda884ea77%7Cbc924c8d3e164e88bf26d7fcfb14f2d5%7C0%7C0%7C638852011010317430%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=V5zEqAO4pA6RMOA0Lbi7DL7yEYSHEQLrT4Qi7RwWQCE%3D&#038;reserved=0\"><em>subscribe to the Montgomery Advertiser<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivwFBVV95cUxQaEs3cE0yTWZCV3VGeEVrWGFyRVVQRDNnNnJjTDhpQWFrRy1YLTBtbm80djZUT2JWY3lPQmVRVXJvLV9YV3k4b1lkaEdYREFBaUcxd0NYMXAtYUU5dnctREZPaXFmLWIzVHVwRWlaSHB4MEZyNVY4REgzREVkM00yU3FGRGhNV1BBNTk3VGxfR3d4NkR5Ml9ONFNjUXJZZzc4RGVDaU03VGRVSkxJbG9VREk1WG53bnp3ZGJvMGotOA?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUBURN \u2014 Duke Smith, a rising redshirt freshman, is no longer with the Auburn football program, a team spokesperson confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser on Tuesday, June 23.Smith is no longer listed on the program&#8217;s roster. He&#8217;s the second player to depart the program this offseason, joining safety Jack Luttrell.In Auburn&#8216;s A-Day game, Smith had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}