Overview
- Kaden Craft, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound four-star from Lake Norman High School in Mooresville, announced his commitment to Tennessee on Monday after multiple visits and a summer camp with the Volunteers.
- 247Sports ranks Craft No. 131 nationally in the 2028 class, No. 9 among quarterbacks, and No. 5 in North Carolina, and his high-school totals include 1,739 passing yards with 17 TDs and 387 rushing yards with 13 rushing TDs in 2025.
- Craft picked Tennessee over scholarship offers from Florida, LSU, Michigan, Ole Miss and Oregon, citing Tennessee’s quarterback development plan and close coach-player relationships as decisive factors.
- The commitment continues coach Josh Heupel’s recent pattern of recruiting quarterbacks from North Carolina, following Tennessee’s earlier success with 2026 recruit Faizon Brandon.
- Craft’s pledge adds to a rapid wave of early 2028 quarterback commitments and gives Tennessee a foundation to build its class and for Craft to begin recruiting teammates from his North Carolina network.