A familiar name is returning to the Green Bay Packers. Former Packers receiver Myles White is joining coach Matt LaFleur’s staff as assistant receivers coach, according to Football Scoop.
An undrafted free agent out of Louisiana Tech in 2013, White caught nine passes for 66 yards for the Packers in 2013 and seven passes for 88 yards and his lone touchdown with the Giants in 2015. He also played in the CFL.
White was a quality-control coach at SMU in 2019 and 2020 and inside receivers coach at Stephen F. Austin in 2021 before spending the last two seasons as receivers coach and passing-game coordinator at Miami (Ohio).
In December, he was selected to the American Football Coaches Association’s 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership Institute, which “is a prestigious program aimed at identifying and developing premier, future leaders in the football coaching profession.”
After initially making the 53-man roster coming out of training camp in 2015, White was released so the team could re-sign James Jones. Instead of signing to Green Bay’s practice squad, he took an opportunity with the Giants.
“If they have to cut me, I just want them to have to look the other way if they do it,” White said at the end of the preseason. “And I think that would be the situation if they did. I’m very confident in my ability and I think I did enough. There’s some plays, obviously, I could’ve made early in the preseason. But that’s football, you can’t make them all, and I think I did a great job of closing out these last two weeks.”
White’s calling card entering the NFL was speed. He signed with the Packers because he didn’t think they had enough.
“I looked at the Packers’ roster and they have a lot of big-guy, possession receivers,” White said at the time. “I think I can go in there and be a burner, a guy who can flip the defense and catch 50-yard bombs. That’s what I’ve done my whole career.
“It’s just a great situation. You’ve got a quarterback who’s the best in the league. (Running back) Eddie Lacy just came in. A great defense. I want to be a part of that greatness.”
Then-receivers coach Edgar Bennett spoke highly of White during OTAs in 2013.
“You see the kid putting his work in. You see him doing the little things,” Bennett said. “You see him being the last guy to leave the wide receiver meeting room because he wants to watch more tape. He wants to get better. He wants to have a complete understanding of what we're asking him to do so that he can apply those techniques in certain situations.”
White is the second former player added to the offensive staff, with LaFleur hiring former NFL quarterback Sean Mannion last week.
As was the case with Mannion, this might be a case of LaFleur getting ahead of potential future coaching losses. Receivers coach and passing game coordinator Jason Vrable might be in line for an offensive coordinator spot in the next year or two.
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