[2D] [C#] Sprite disappears after changing position

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I’ve run into a problem that’s been bothering me a little bit.
I’m sure the cause of it is something very simple, but I can’t seem to think of anything.

My scene currently has a set of spikes and a player. Whenever the player collides with the spikes, it’s supposed to respawn at a checkpoint. I’ve used the following scripts for this:

KillPlayer (attached to Spikes)

public LevelManager levelManager;

	void Start () 
    {
        levelManager = FindObjectOfType<LevelManager>();
	}

    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
    {
        if (other.name == "player")
        {
            levelManager.RespawnPlayer();
        }
    }

LevelManager (attached to empty gameobject in scene)

 public GameObject currentCheckpoint;
    private PlayerController player;

	void Start () 
    {
        player = FindObjectOfType<PlayerController>();
	}

    public void RespawnPlayer()
    {
        Debug.Log("Player respawned.");
        player.transform.position = currentCheckpoint.transform.position;
    }

I know this script works, because when I move the player into the spikes, the camera moves back to the position of the checkpoint.
However, after this happens, I can’t see my player anymore.

After some research I found that the problem might have something to do with the Sprite Renderer’s Sorting Layer being set on default, but I’m too much of a newbie to know what I’m supposed to change to fix this.

To be sure, here’s a few screenshots.

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player.transform.position = new Vector3(currentCheckpoint.transform.position.x, currentCheckpoint.transform.position.y, player.transform.position.z);