‘They know what I can do:’ Devin White surprised to lose starting spot originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
We all thought Devin White would go into the regular season as a starting linebacker because every day but one during training camp he took the first set of reps with the starting defense.
He seemed like a starter because he was a starter.
“Yeah, you could truly say that,” White said at his locker Thursday. “The way the snap count went, the things I did on the field, preseason wise?”
We were wrong.
He was wrong.
White, who won a Super Bowl and made a Pro Bowl with the Buccaneers, signed a one-year, $7.5 million contract with the Eagles to revive his career after getting benched last year in Tampa.
That process hit a roadblock with the news from Vic Fangio Wednesday that Nakobe Dean and Zack Baun will be the Eagles’ starting linebackers moving forward.
White said all the right things Thursday, but it was definitely a blow to the 26-year-old White.
“At the end of the day, it’s not my call,” he said. “I’ll just do what’s asked of me and just stay ready. Whether I go out there the last two minutes of the game or the first play of the game, I’ve just got to be ready and just be able to give this team all I have.
“Because that’s what I came here to do. Just rewrite my story for my career. However that plays out, I don’t control that. I just leave that in God’s hand and I stay ready. I don’t cry, don’t mope around. I just come to work and be a pro about everything.”
White said during the summer that getting benched in Tampa was humbling.
He was asked if this was also humbling but he said it’s different because he said he was selfish the way he handled things in Tampa but feels like he did everything he could at training camp this summer and through the offseason to show what kind of player he is.
“I put my best foot forward, so nothing about what’s going on now is humbling, it’s just just how the cards were dealt, you know?” he…
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Publish date : 2024-09-13 14:25:08
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