Former Knoxville Catholic two-sport star Kaden Martin, the son of former Tennessee quarterback Tee Martin, will join his father at LSU.
Kaden Martin announced on May 23 that he’s transferring to LSU from MTSU, where he spent the past two football season. He’ll be on coach Lane Kiffin’s first LSU football roster in the 2026 season.
It will be Martin’s fourth school while playing two sports. He played baseball at Miami in 2022 and at ETSU in 2023, but he appeared in only two games total. He was on the MTSU football team in 2024-25, but he did not play in a game.
His father, Tee Martin, was the Tennessee quarterback on the 1998 national title team and later a Vols assistant coach under Jeremy Pruitt in 2019-20. Kiffin, the former Tennessee coach, hired Martin in March.
LSU plays at Tennessee on Nov. 21. Notably, there’s a statue of Tee Martin just outside Neyland Stadium.
Kaden Martin is also familiar with UT. He attended Knoxville Catholic, transferring to the school midway through his freshman year.
In his first season as Catholic’s quarterback in 2019, Martin passed for 1,226 yards and 11 touchdowns and also rushed for nine touchdowns. In 2020, he passed for 1,379 yards with nine touchdowns and six interceptions, and he rushed for nine touchdowns.
In baseball, Martin was named a Perfect Game All-American in 2021 after setting a Catholic record with 13 home runs.
After his junior year at Catholic, he transferred to McDonogh School, a private school in Owings Mills, Maryland, for his senior year.
Adam Sparks is the Tennessee football beat reporter. Email adam.sparks@knoxnews.com. X, formerly known as Twitter@AdamSparks. Support strong local journalism by subscribing atknoxnews.com/subscribe.
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