USF Athletics

Episode 4 - Austin Reiter

April 15, 2020

Episode 1: Chad Barnhardt
Episode 2: Courtney Williams
Episode 3: Chucky Atkins
 

TAMPA, APRIL 15, 2020 – Vice President of Athletics Michael Kelly chats with Super Bowl LIV champion Austin Reiter, a standout center for USF from 2011-14, in the fourth episode of Kelly's Conversations.

Kelly's new weekly podcast series will feature USF standouts of the past, reliving their exciting moments in Bulls history and informing listeners on what they're up to now.
 
Reiter's USF Feats

• Played in 46 games from 2011-14 and made 36 straight starts at center throughout his final three seasons with the program. Reiter was on the line for almost every down from 2012-14.
• Rimington Award candidate as a junior and senior.
• As a senior, helped Marlon Mack register just the fourth 1,000-yard rushing season in school history. Mack, a freshman in that 2014 season, set school and conference rushing records with 275 yards in the season-opening win over Western Carolina at Raymond James Stadium.
• Named to the 2014 American Athletic Conference third team by Phil Steele.
• Received USF's Offensive Lineman Award in each of his final two seasons. Also won the Bulls' Tough Man Award as a senior.
• Earned his degree in communications in 2013.

• Selected by the Washington Redskins in the seventh round of the 2015 NFL Draft.
• Became just the second USF offensive lineman drafted in the history of the program and the first since Kenyatta Jones was selected in the fourth round by the New England Patriots in 2001.

 
Pro Notes

• Starting center for the Super Bowl LIV champion Kansas City Chiefs. Became USF football's 10^th member of a Super Bowl champion team.
• Reiter and former USF teammate Kofi Amichia became the 12^th and 13^th Bulls in USF history to play for Super Bowl teams.
• Five-year pro started all 16 regular-season games for the Chiefs in 2019 and made three more starts in the playoffs.
• Played in 13 total games for Kansas City during his breakout 2018 season and made four starts. Reiter was rewarded with a two-year extension worth up to $5.5 million in December 2018.
• Has played in 49 NFL regular season and playoff games since 2016 with Kansas City and Cleveland.
• Seventh-round draft pick spend his rookie season on the Washington Redskins' practice squad in 2015.

 
Other Interesting Reiter Facts

• Bay made talent from Bradenton.
• Played right tackle on offense and three-technique defensive tackle at Lakewood Ranch High School.
• Chose USF over offers from Wake Forest, UCF, FIU, Middle Tennessee State, Miami, West Virginia and Cincinnati.
• Father, Richard Reiter, played offensive line for the University of Cincinnati's football team in the 1980s.

 
About USF Football
The USF football program first took the field in 1997 and completed its 23^rd season (20^th at the FBS level) in 2019. The Bulls have posted 15 winning seasons, earned 14 All-America selections and 29 first-team all-conference selections and has seen 30 players selected in the NFL Draft. USF has made 10 bowl games appearances (going 6-4 in those games) and posted a program record six straight appearances from 2005-2010. The Bulls most recently made four straight bowl appearances from 2015-18 and posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016 while finishing both seasons ranked in the Top 25. USF spent a program record 20 straight weeks ranked in the Top 25 during the 2016 and 2017 seasons and reached as high as No. 2 in the national rankings during the 2007 season.
                                                                                
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