{"id":660983,"date":"2026-05-23T19:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660983\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:32:17","slug":"son-of-tennessee-football-national-champion-quarterback-commits-to-lane-kiffins-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660983\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Tennessee Football National Champion Quarterback Commits to Lane Kiffin&#8217;s LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-09-at-9.45.12-PM.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-185383\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"lane kiffin coach o lsu\" width=\"625\" height=\"404\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-01-09-at-9.45.12-PM-300x194.png\"\/><\/a>Photo via LSU Athletics<\/p>\n<p>The son of a former national champion Tennessee football quarterback has committed and signed with Lane Kiffin\u2019s LSU program. Kaden Martin, 1998 Vols champion Tee Martin\u2019s son, announced his decision on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYqNYXHSwV_\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kaden Martin now joins his dad in Baton Rouge. Tee Martin was hired this offseason by Kiffin as an offensive analyst. This is Tee Martin\u2019s second stint coaching alongside Kiffin. He was also hired by him at USC in 2012 as the Trojans\u2019 wide receivers coach.<\/p>\n<p>Kaden Martin is now at his fourth school. He began his career at Miami before transferring. He also played baseball for the Hurricanes, appearing in two games. He did not appear on the diamond at all after transferring to ETSU before returning to football with MTSU. It is believed that this will be his final year of eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>More From RTI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/2026\/05\/23\/where-tennessee-footballs-2027-recruiting-class-ranks-nine-commitments-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Where Tennessee Football\u2019s 2027 Recruiting Class Ranks Nine Commitments In<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tee Martin played at Tennessee from 1996-99. After sitting behind Peyton Manning, he took over in 1998 and led the program to a BCS National Championship win over Florida State. After his college career, he went in the fifth round of the 2000 NFL Draft to the Steelers. He hung up his cleats after the 2005 season to begin his coaching career.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2021, Tee Martin has been on the Ravens\u2019 staff in the NFL as a wide receiver coach, then a quarterback coach. This is Kiffin\u2019s first year at LSU after taking the job\u00a0following a successful stint at Ole Miss. Kiffin also coached at Tennessee for one season, 2009,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/2025\/01\/12\/an-oral-history-of-the-night-lane-kiffin-left-tennessee-for-usc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">before leaving in the night<\/a>\u00a0for USC.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Kiffin, the 51-year-old LSU head coach, has already taken to social media in attempts to troll UT over the hiring of Tee Martin. He recently posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/2026\/04\/22\/lsu-football-hc-lane-kiffin-trolls-tennessee-with-video-of-tee-martin-and-rocky-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">video<\/a> of Rocky Top playing over the speaker while panning to Tee Martin.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo via LSU Athletics The son of a former national champion Tennessee football quarterback has committed and signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,289247,43305,14765,78140,398,396,397,99,238830,5771,17963],"class_list":["post-660983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-kaden-martin","tag-lane-kiffin","tag-lsu","tag-lsu-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-tee-martin","tag-tennessee-football","tag-tennessee-vols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}