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Alabama defensive lineman/tight end LaMichael Fanning (44) waits for the next drill during Alabama's 2013 Texas A&M game-week Monday football practice, Monday, September 09, 2013, at the Thomas-Drew Practice Facility in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com)

-- Alabama defensive end

LaMichael Fanning

, who did not dress for Saturday's game against Arkansas and hasn't been spotted at practice for a week, has been indefinitely suspended for violation of team rules, coach

Nick Saban

said Wednesday.

"He's not around," Saban said.

Fanning saw sparse playing time in four games this season and came away with three tackles. He experimented a bit at the tight end position during preseason camp before ultimately moving back to defensive end midway through August.

He was listed as a third-string defensive end behind

Ed Stinson

and

A'Shawn Robinson

.

A four-star prospect from Hamilton, Ga., Fanning played his final year of high school ball at Auburn high. He redshirted his first season at Alabama and saw occasional work with the reserve defensive line in 2012. Though highlights of his suplex tackle of Missouri running back

Russell Hansbrough

went viral, Fanning apologized with a letter to Hansbrough and did not travel to Alabama's next game.

Fanning is the sixth player to be officially suspended since the start of August camp. The previous five -- tight end

Malcolm Faciane

(30 days), cornerback

Geno Smith

(one game), linebacker

Trey DePriest

(one week of practice), running back

T.J. Yeldon

(first quarter of one game) and safety

HaHa Clinton-Dix

(two games) -- were initially suspended with an indefinite timetable before returning to Saban's good graces.

"I guess guys still haven't learned their lesson," senior linebacker

C.J. Mosley

said. "We had a few guys that had some discipline action at the beginning of the season and the offseason. You mess up, you've got to suspend guys. I hate that it happened for him but sometimes you have to learn from your mistakes."

The five players who were suspended during the offseason are no longer with the team.

"There's a lot of guys that do the right things," left tackle

Cyrus Kouandjio

said. "There's 100 kids. Here and there, you're going to have problems. It's impossible to not have problems. Out of those 100 kids, 95, 96, 97, we're doing what we're supposed to do.

"I think the majority of us know what we're supposed to do and we're doing things right."