A’Mon Lane was in middle school when he and his sisters were split up. While his sisters were placed into foster care, Lane was initially set to live with his middle school football coach.

However, after those living arrangements didn’t work out in the long run, he too was set to join his siblings in foster care.

But that was before Jake Ganus, who was an assistant football coach at Thompson High School at the time, heard of Lane’s situation and offered to grab a bite to eat with the middle schooler one day.

“I ended up picking him up, took him home and the joker never left,” said Ganus, who now serves as the head coach at Moody High School. “He’s been with us ever since.”

Ganus admits it was a bit of a transition at the time as he was just 24 or 25 years old, the father of an eight-month-old daughter and then opened his home to a teenage boy he’d just met.

But it worked out for Lane and the Ganus family.

“I got adopted by Coach Ganus, my dad,” said Lane, whose last name is Lane-Ganus on his Twitter profile. “I’ve honestly never felt love like that.. He didn’t really know me. He didn’t really care. He just saw that I needed someone.”

Before he and his seven siblings were split up, they lived with their mother and grandmother.

And while Lane grew up without a father figure, he didn’t go without someone instilling a love for football in him — specifically Auburn football.

“My grandma, she loved football,” Lane said. “She taught me the game of football. My dad, he’s in prison, so I really just got the game from my grandmother. She really was the person who made me love the game.”

Lane says he can remember watching the “Kick Six” in 2013. And while many of his family members were Alabama fans, his grandmother stood alone as an Auburn fan.

“I kinda leaned that way with her,” Lane said.

Since then, Lane’s lean towards the Auburn Tigers has strengthened.

Ranked a 4-star cornerback by 247Sports, Lane was offered by Auburn in April of 2021. And while he had already hauled in offers from schools like Florida State, Ole Miss and Michigan, he knew all along where he wanted to play college football.

Lane went on to commit to the Auburn Tigers on July 30, 2022. And despite the coaching change at Auburn, Lane has stood steady in his commitment.

“I just fell in love with Auburn,” Lane said. “I feel like the guys that we have coming in and the ones that are on the way, we’re about to change that whole program around.”

Learn more about Lane, his relationship with his adoptive father, who doubles as his football coach and his path to becoming an Auburn football commit in AL.com’s most recent installment of its Iron Docs film series in the video above.