The 49ers have released wide receiver Kevin White, per a club announcement. In a corresponding move, they’ve added linebacker Donald Payne to their offseason roster.
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White, a former No. 7 overall pick by the Bears, came out of West Virginia in 2015 with tons of hype. Unfortunately, injuries have limited him to just 17 games since then. Even though the Niners were decimated by injuries last year, White was jockeyed on and off the roster last year. He appeared in three games for SF in 2020 without recording an official statistic. For his career, White has 25 catches for 285 yards and zero touchdowns.
The 49ers will move ahead with Brandon Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel as their leading receivers, plus support from Trent Sherfield, Mohamed Sanu, Jauan Jennings, and others vying for the final WR spots on the depth chart. White was near the bottom of the team’s ~12 WR hopefuls in camp, so his release doesn’t come as a huge surprise.
Payne, meanwhile, has not seen live action since he was with the Jaguars in 2019. That year, he recorded 61 total tackles with one sack, one pass defensed, and one fumble recovery.
This could most likely mean Keven White will no longer be in the NFL
Thank you Charles
I would agree. It’s unfortunate, because he really tried hard to come back after those wasted years with the Bears, and his athletic potential will never be fully realized. Injuries really did him in, and the loss of confidence resulting from them hurt him when he did play. He did an interview about it with J.J. Stankevitz that seemed pretty authentic to me.
The good news for Kevin White is that he will be an obvious inductee into the Draft Bust HOS.
I kinda feel bad for him at this point. He never even scored a touchdown. He probably won’t even list his receiving career on his Indeed profile.
49ers cut WHITE Wide Receiver !!
Another Pace bust. Just one in a long line sad to say.
The 2015 draft. I do believe that we should give Reggie McKenzie some credit on this one. He took a lot of ridicule that year for drafting Amari Cooper #4 over all instead of Kevin White. Even though Cooper is not with the Silver and Black, it does appear that he was the better choice.
Out of that draft only picks #5 Sherff, #13 Peat, and #17 Armstead are even still with their team, and worth a dang. So, good for Washington, New Orleans, and the 49ers, side note 49ers actually picked up OG Laken Tomlinson for basically nothing a couple years back, and he’s been a solid and steady performer for them at LG the past few seasons..
Yeah, Tomlinson looked like a sure fire miss to most (despite his promise in college), but the Niners managed to turn his career around spectacularly. That was a great, cheap move that ended up with a lot of value.
Andrus Peat I’ve always felt not as impressed by. He’s a decent enough player I suppose, but I always felt that he was overdrafted, and that extension that forced Larry Warford out of New Orleans and assigned the Saints a big cap number was a mistake in my mind. Peat is no bust, not by any means, but it always seemed that New Orleans was/is higher on him than objectively they should be. Just my opinion.
Reggie McKenzie was a better GM than most people give him credit for. Unfortunately he got thrown under the bus because Gruden’s ego can’t accept sharing the stage with anyone.