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| Position | Safety | ||||
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| Born | (1964-04-06)April 6, 1964 (age 61) Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. | ||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||
| Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||
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| High school | Orange Park (FL) | ||||
| College | Southern Illinois Florida | ||||
| NFL draft | 1987: 2nd round, 55th overall pick | ||||
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Adrian Darnell White (born April 6, 1964) is an American former professionalfootball player who was asafety for seven seasons in theNational Football League (NFL) during the 1980s and 1990s. White playedcollege football for theFlorida Gators, and thereafter, he played professionally for theNew York Giants,Green Bay Packers andNew England Patriots of the NFL. He became an assistant coach after his playing career ended.
White was born inJacksonville, Florida in 1964.[1] He attendedOrange Park High School[2] where he played high school football for the Orange Park Raiders.
White began his college career atSouthern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, and he played football for theSouthern Illinois Salukis for a single season in 1983. He transferred to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida where he was awalk-on for coachCharlie Pell'sFlorida Gators football team from1984 to1986.[3] White was a three-year starter for the Gators, and a key member of the Gators' defense during the1984 and1985 seasons, when the Gators posted identical 9–1–1 overall win–loss records and led theSoutheastern Conference (SEC) with best-in-the-SEC records of 5–0–1 and 5–1. He was a first-team All-SEC selection and a second-teamAll-American as a senior in 1986.[3] White was also a two-yearFlorida Gators track and field letterman as a sprinter and anchored the Gators' 4x100-meter relay team that included OlympianDennis Mitchell.
White graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice in 1993, and later earned a master's degree in education fromFairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.
The New York Giants selected White in the second round (fifty-fifth overall pick) in the1987 NFL draft.[4] He played for the Giants from1987 to1991.[5] White finished his NFL playing career with single-season stints with the Green Bay Packers (1992) and the New England Patriots (1993).[5] During his seven-season NFL career, White played in 70 regular season games, started five of them, and had four interceptions.[5]
White was the assistant coach for defensive quality control promoted to assistant defensive backs coach for the Buffalo Bills, and his responsibilities included opposition scouting and self-scouting, as well as working with the Bills' defensive backs corps.[6] He was one of three assistants retained from the previous coaching staff by the Bills' new head coach,Chan Gailey, having previously been a Bills assistant for two years.[6] He was with the Bills from 2008 to 2012, when he, along with the entire Bills coaching staff, was dismissed on December 31, 2012.[7]