Brad White (American football)

Brad White (born August 13, 1982) is an American football coach who is currently the defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach at the University of Kentucky.

Brad White
Current position
TitleDefensive coordinator
TeamKentucky
ConferenceSEC
Annual salary$1,400,000[1]
Biographical details
Born (1982-08-13) August 13, 1982
Concord, Massachusetts
Playing career
2000Georgia
2001–2004Wake Forest
Position(s)Linebacker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2007–2008Wake Forest (GA)
2009Murray State (S)
2010–2011Air Force (ILB)
2012–2013Indianapolis Colts (DQC)
2014Indianapolis Colts (asst. LB)
2015–2017Indianapolis Colts (OLB)
2018Kentucky (OLB)
2019–presentKentucky (DC/OLB)

Playing career

White turned down an offer to play college football at Yale to walk-on at Georgia, but did not play a season with the Bulldogs, opting to transfer after head coach Jim Donnan was fired and replaced by Mark Richt. He transferred to Wake Forest, where former Georgia assistant Brad Lambert was recently hired as their linebackers coach.[2]

In his first season at Wake Forest, he led the team in total tackles with 94, including 24 tackles against Navy, the most by a Wake Forest player during the Jim Grobe era.[3] He finished his career with 227 total tackles, while starting 34 of the 35 games he played in.

Coaching career

After working at Bank of America as a portfolio management analyst for a couple of years, White joined the coaching staff of his alma mater Wake Forest as a graduate assistant.[4] He was named the safeties coach at Murray State in 2009 and spent one season there before moving on to coaching the inside linebackers at Air Force, working under former Wake Forest offensive coordinator Troy Calhoun.[5] He joined the Indianapolis Colts in 2012 as a defensive quality control coach and worked his way up to outside linebackers coach in 2015, spending six seasons in total with the Colts.

White was named the outside linebackers coach at Kentucky in 2018 as the 10th on-field assistant coach, joining his former defensive coordinator at Wake Forest, Dean Hood, who was the special teams coordinator at Kentucky at the time.[6] He was promoted to defensive coordinator in 2019 after Matt House left to accept an NFL coaching position.[7][8]

References
  1. "UK football coordinators Eddie Gran and Brad White get raises. See what they'll make". Kentucky Sports. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. "Player Spotlight: Brad White". Wake Forest University Athletics. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  3. "'LITTLE RHODY' HAS BIG INTEREST IN WAKE-BC". Greensboro News & Record. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  4. "Brad White Joins Wake Forest Football Staff". Wake Forest University Athletics. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  5. "Meet The Coach: Brad White". Indianapolis Colts. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  6. "Meet new UK assistant Brad White, a former investment banker once destined for Yale". Courier Journal. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  7. "White Elevated to Defensive Coordinator". University of Kentucky Athletics. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  8. "Kentucky announces Brad White has been promoted to defensive coordinator". Saturday Down South. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
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