AUBURN, Alabama -- Tucker Tuberville is not the only former Texas Tech player transferring to Auburn this fall.

Freshman defensive end Chase Robison plans to transfer in August to Auburn, where he will sit out the 2013 season, according to The Memphis Commercial Appeal.

The former three-star player out of Memphis Christian Brothers is leaving Texas Tech after a redshirt season. He's the second Texas Tech player to transfer to Auburn since Tommy Tuberville left Tech to take the Cincinnati job. Tuberville coached Auburn for 10 seasons (1999-2008). Tuberville's son will transfer to Auburn and play quarterback as a walk-on, the school confirmed Thursday night.

Robison says he is leaving Lubbock, Texas because he is not happy with the changes the defensive staff has made since Kliff Kingsbury came to town.

"They changed to a 3-man front and moved me to linebacker," he told the Commercial Appeal on Tuesday. "And I went to Texas Tech to play defensive end."

He had 67 tackles, including 13 for losses and 3.5 quarterback sacks, as a senior in 2011. He spent most of his freshman season at Texas Tech on the scout team. He will be on scholarship at Auburn in 2014, according to AuburnSports.com.

Robison says he wants to play in the SEC and be "closer to home." He will have four years to play three at Auburn.

“Sitting out (a second straight year) is going to be hard — I wish I didn’t have to," he told the newspaper. "But it’s going to give me a chance to become bigger, stronger and faster.”

Tucker Tuberville, a quarterback, will walk on at Auburn after following his father to Tech in the fall and then Cincinnati in the spring. He is expected to be on campus when the Tigers begin fall camp Aug. 2, a school spokesman told AL.com on Thursday.