Kaden Martin is joining his father at LSU. The former Knoxville Catholic two-sport star announced May 23 that he is transferring to LSU from MTSU, putting him on coach Lane Kiffin's first Lsu Tigers Football roster for the 2026 season.
Martin spent the past two football seasons at MTSU and did not play in a game during the 2024-25 stretch. He also played baseball at Miami in 2022 and at ETSU in 2023, appearing in only two games total across those stops.
The move brings Martin back to a family name with deep ties to Tennessee football. Tee Martin was the quarterback on the 1998 national title team and later served as a Vols assistant coach under Jeremy Pruitt in 2019-20. Lane Kiffin hired Tee Martin in March, and he will work at LSU as an offensive analyst after spending the last five seasons on the Baltimore Ravens staff, where he served as receivers coach and then quarterbacks coach.
Kaden Martin's path has been as winding as any recruit's. He attended Knoxville Catholic and transferred to the school midway through his freshman year, then built a strong high school résumé as a quarterback and baseball player. In 2019, he passed for 1,226 yards and 11 touchdowns while rushing for nine touchdowns, then followed with 1,379 passing yards, nine touchdowns, six interceptions and nine more rushing scores in 2020. He was named a Perfect Game All-American in 2021 and set a Knoxville Catholic baseball record with 13 home runs before transferring after his junior year to McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Maryland, for his senior season.
The family connection will be impossible to miss when LSU visits Tennessee on Nov. 21. Tee Martin still has a statue just outside Neyland Stadium, a reminder of what he meant to the Vols, and now his son will be part of LSU's next chapter while his father helps shape the offense in Baton Rouge.
