Tennessee football legend Peyton Manning’s son, Marshall, is going to be just a short trip away from Knoxville in the near future.
According to a report from Stephen Hargis of the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Marshall Manning is transferring to Baylor School. The school is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is just about a two-hour drive and 100-mile trip to Neyland Stadium.
Hargis reports he will be enrolled as an eighth-grade day student. This likely makes him a class of 2030 recruit.
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This move for Marshall Manning comes all the way from Colorado. He previously competed and went to middle school in the state where his father, Peyton Manning, finished his NFL career with the Denver Broncos.
Now, he’ll be much closer to his father’s alma mater of Tennessee in Knoxville. Peyton Manning has been a common sight at Vols events, whether it’s been football games or the baseball national championship in 2024.
It’s not guaranteed that Marshall Manning will follow in his father’s footsteps, though. Peyton Manning himself made the decision to carve his own path by choosing the Vols. Recently, Marshall Manning’s cousin, Arch Manning, made his unique choice of heading to Texas, where he’ll start for the Longhorns this year.
If he does head to play for the Vols, he’ll have massive shoes to fill. Peyton Manning played four years for Tennessee and is now considered one of the best SEC quarterbacks in the conference’s storied history.
He has his iconic No. 16 retired by the university, finished his career with 42 NCAA, SEC and UT records, was the Maxwell Award winner as the nation’s most outstanding player and the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award winner.
He was also named the Heisman Trophy runner-up in a controversial decision that is still widely disputed to this day. This led to him going No. 1 overall in the NFL draft, where he went on to win a pair of Super Bowls, one with the Colts and one with the Broncos.
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If he’s a day student, who is he going to live with?