Caden Piening holds the TE · Depth spot in UCF Knights’s tight end room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Caden Piening is a tight end for the UCF Knights standing 6'5" and weighing 245 pounds. The Cincinnati, Ohio native played high school football at Anderson, where he was a three-star recruit rated as the 13th best tight end nationally and top tight end from Ohio. In his senior season, Piening recorded 769 receiving yards and 43 receptions with seven touchdowns. During his freshman year in 2025, he appeared in four games for UCF, including a start against North Carolina on September 20, before earning a redshirt following an injury-affected campaign.