Michael Longfellow will not be returning to Saturday Night Live next season.

Longfellow’s exit comes after just three seasons on the show, having been promoted to the main cast ahead of Season 50. Deadline was the first to report the news.

He is now the third cast member to leave, after Devon Walker and Emil Wakim. Writers Celeste Yim and Rosebud Baker have also exited the show ahead of Season 51, which is set to premiere later this fall.

Deadline notes more cast members are expected to exit in the coming weeks. Jon Schneider, of The Saturday Night Live Network, also reports more “major decisions” are expected to be made.

Longfellow was reportedly testing to take over the Weekend Update desk as rumors circulated that Colin Jost could be on his way out.

Longfellow has yet to release a statement regarding his exit. But Wakim wrote in a statement on social media that it “was a gut punch of a call to get.”

“I’m so grateful for my time there,” he wrote, later adding, “It was the most terrifying, thrilling, and rewarding experience of my life and I will miss it dearly and all the brilliant people that work there that made it feel like a home. thank u to lorne for taking a chance on me and changing my life.”

Lorne Michaels announced there would be a major cast shake-up ahead of Season 51, noting that they held off on making “those kinds of disruptions [to the cast]” to keep the focus on the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary.

There is growing speculation that some of SNL‘s biggest stars will be leaving before the show returns this fall, including Bowen Yang and Michael Che. Che seemingly announced his exit during a stand-up performance earlier this year at the University of Rochester.

“This is my last season. I’m not coming back, don’t worry. I’m done, it’s over for me. It’s been so much fun. It’s a little emotional, it’s bittersweet,” he said, per the Campus Times. 

Saturday Night Live Season 51 premieres Oct. 4.