| Brad White | |
| Current Title: | Defensive coordinator |
| Current Team: | Kentucky |
| Current Conference: | SEC |
| Contract: | $1,400,000[1] |
| Birth Date: | August 13, 1982 |
| Birth Place: | Concord, Massachusetts |
| Player Years1: | 2000 |
| Player Team1: | Georgia |
| Player Years2: | 2001–2004 |
| Player Team2: | Wake Forest |
| Player Positions: | Linebacker |
| Coach Years1: | 2007–2008 |
| Coach Team1: | Wake Forest (GA) |
| Coach Years2: | 2009 |
| Coach Team2: | Murray State (S) |
| Coach Years3: | 2010–2011 |
| Coach Team3: | Air Force (ILB) |
| Coach Years4: | 2012–2013 |
| Coach Team4: | Indianapolis Colts (DQC) |
| Coach Years5: | 2014 |
| Coach Team5: | Indianapolis Colts (asst. LB) |
| Coach Years6: | 2015–2017 |
| Coach Team6: | Indianapolis Colts (OLB) |
| Coach Years7: | 2018 |
| Coach Team7: | Kentucky (OLB) |
| Coach Years8: | 2019–present |
| Coach Team8: | Kentucky (DC/OLB) |
Brad White (born August 13, 1982) is an American football coach who is currently the defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach at the University of Kentucky.
White turned down an offer to play college football at Yale to walk-on at Georgia, but did not play a season with the Bulldogs, opting to transfer after head coach Jim Donnan was fired and replaced by Mark Richt. He transferred to Wake Forest, where former Georgia assistant Brad Lambert was recently hired as their linebackers coach.[2]
In his first season at Wake Forest, he led the team in total tackles with 94, including 24 tackles against Navy, the most by a Wake Forest player during the Jim Grobe era.[3] He finished his career with 227 total tackles, while starting 34 of the 35 games he played in.
After working at Bank of America as a portfolio management analyst for a couple of years, White joined the coaching staff of his alma mater Wake Forest as a graduate assistant.[4] He was named the safeties coach at Murray State in 2009 and spent one season there before moving on to coaching the inside linebackers at Air Force, working under former Wake Forest offensive coordinator Troy Calhoun.[5] He joined the Indianapolis Colts in 2012 as a defensive quality control coach and worked his way up to outside linebackers coach in 2015, spending six seasons in total with the Colts.
White was named the outside linebackers coach at Kentucky in 2018 as the 10th on-field assistant coach, joining his former defensive coordinator at Wake Forest, Dean Hood, who was the special teams coordinator at Kentucky at the time.[6] He was promoted to defensive coordinator in 2019 after Matt House left to accept an NFL coaching position.[7] [8]