Tee Martin

Tee Martin

Martin visits the Kentucky Army National Guard in 2010
USC Trojans
Position:	Offensive Coordinator
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1978-07-25) July 25, 1978
Place of birth:	Mobile, Alabama
Height:
Weight:
Career information
High school:	Mobile (AL) Williamson
College:	Tennessee
NFL draft:	2000 / Round: 5 / Pick: 163
Career history
As player:
Pittsburgh Steelers (2000–2001) Rhein Fire (NFL Europe) (2002) Philadelphia Eagles (2002)* Oakland Raiders (2003) Winnipeg Blue Bombers (CFL) (2004–2005)
* Offseason and/or practice squad member only
As coach:
Morehouse (passing game coordinator) (2006) North Cobb HS (passing game coordinator/QB) (2007) North Atlanta HS (offensive coordinator/QB) (2008) New Mexico (QB) (2009) Kentucky (WR) (2010) Kentucky (passing game coordinator/WR) (2011) USC (WR) (2012–2015) USC (OC/WR) (2016–present)
Career highlights and awards
As coach: Las Vegas Bowl champion (2013) As player: Consensus national champion (1998) 2× SEC champion (1997–1998) Fiesta Bowl champion (1998) Citrus Bowl champion (1996)
Career NFL statistics
Completion %: 37.5 TD–INT: 0–1 Passing yards: 69 Passer rating: 25.3 Rushing yards: 36 Player stats at NFL.com
Career CFL statistics
Completion %: 42.1 TD–INT: 1–4 Passing yards: 458 Passer rating: 43.2 Rushing yards: 64

Tamaurice Nigel "Tee" Martin (born July 25, 1978) is an American football coach and former quarterback who played in the National Football League and Canadian Football League. He is the current offensive coordinator for the University of Southern California Trojans.

College career

Martin was a backup to Peyton Manning during his freshman and sophomore years at the University of Tennessee. During his junior season, Martin led the 1998 Tennessee Volunteers football team to a 13–0 record and a Fiesta Bowl victory over Florida State University, winning the school its first NCAA Division I-A national football championship since 1951. He was teammates with running back Jamal Lewis in his early years at Tennessee and Peerless Price, who each went on to play in the NFL.

In the 1998 season, Martin broke the NCAA record for consecutive completions. Against South Carolina, Martin completed his first 24 passes, thus broken by Dominique Davis formerly of East Carolina who completed 23 in a row. Combined with a completion the previous week against Alabama, Martin's string of 24 completions set the new record.

In 1999, Martin led the Vols to their second consecutive BCS bowl. During Martin's two years as a starter at Tennessee, the Vols were undefeated against 5 of his main conference rivals, (2–0 vs Alabama, 2–0 vs Auburn, 2–0 vs Georgia, 2–0 vs Vanderbilt, 2-0 vs Kentucky, and 1–1 vs Florida).

Professional career

Martin was drafted in the fifth round of the 2000 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers. In 2004, Martin retired as an Oakland Raider after four NFL seasons. Martin spent one season in the NFL Europe league. During the 2002 season, he led the Rhein Fire to a league best 7–3 record. The Fire lost in the World Bowl, falling 20–26 to the Berlin Thunder.

As one of six quarterbacks chosen before Tom Brady in the 2000 NFL Draft, Martin was profiled in the 2011 ESPN documentary, "Brady 6".

Martin owns Playmakers Sports, a company specializing in sports event planning, quarterback training, and skills development and is a college football expert on Comcast Sports Southeast program Talkin' Football. He is a quarterback coach for the Nike Elite 11 Quarterback Camps, Nike Football Training Camps, and has trained many high school and Division 1 quarterbacks. In 2008, Martin created the "Dual Threat" Quarterback Camp and Academy in Atlanta, Georgia.

Coaching career

After one year as quarterbacks coach at New Mexico under Mike Locksley, Martin accepted the wide receivers coaching position at the University of Kentucky to join new head coach Joker Phillips.

In February 2012, Martin was announced as the new wide receivers coach for the University of Southern California. He had been linked with jobs at both Alabama and Oregon previously. News of his hiring at USC was broken by a tweet by Matt Barkley. Martin replaced Ted Gilmore who left to take a job at the Oakland Raiders.

Video games

Martin appeared in a short season preview for NCAA Football 99 where a virtual rendering of himself throws a long pass for a touchdown.

Personal

Martin was born and raised in Mobile, AL. He is now married to the former Toya Rodriguez, a recording artist known professionally as Toya. Martin has four children Amari, Ayadra, Kaden, and Cannon.

Further reading

• 1999 Tennessee Volunteers Football Media Guide

External links

• Winnipeg Blue Bombers bio (from 2005)
• Tee Martin's Official Lost Lettermen Interviews

Preceded by Peyton Manning

Tennessee Volunteers Starting Quarterbacks 1998–1999

Succeeded by A. J. Suggs