Christopher Andrew White (born January 15, 1989) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

linebacker Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and the defensive linemen. They are the "middle ground" of defenders, ...

. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL Draft. White attended Vancleave (Miss.) High School. He played college football at

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC) is a public community college with its main campus in Perkinston, Mississippi. It was founded as Harrison County Agricultural High School in 1912. MGCCC has three campuses and six centers: The ma ...

and

Mississippi State Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research university adjacent to Starkville, Mississippi. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Univer ...

. On August 25, 2013, White was traded to the Lions in exchange for Thaddeus Lewis. On September 1, 2013, he was claimed off waivers by the New England Patriots. White was a member of the Patriots when they won

Super Bowl XLIX Super Bowl XLIX was an American football game played to determine the champions of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2014 season. The American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots defeated the National Football Conf ...

over the Seattle Seahawks, 28–24. On August 10, 2015, the Patriots released White.

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Mississippi State Bulldogs football bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:White, Chris 1989 births Living people Players of American football from Mississippi American football linebackers Mississippi State Bulldogs football players People from Jackson County, Mississippi Buffalo Bills players Detroit Lions players New England Patriots players Mississippi Gulf Coast Bulldogs football players