Pat White enters his second season as an offensive assistant for the Chargers in 2023. The former West Virginia and NFL quarterback spent the 2021 training camp with the team as part of the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship.
White worked with the wide receivers in his first season, assisting Wide Receivers Coach Chris Beatty as the offense ranked third in the NFL in passing offense (269.6 net passing yards per game) and No. 9 in total offense (359.3 total net yards per game). The Bolts set a single-season NFL record by featuring six players, including four receivers — Keenan Allen, DeAndre Carter, Joshua Palmer and Mike Williams — with at least 500 receiving yards and three touchdown grabs.
Before coming to the Chargers, White spent time in the college coaching ranks Campbell University, as the program's pass game coordinator/quarterbacks coach for Spring 2022. He has also spent time at Alcorn State (2018-19), South Florida (2020) and Alabama State (2021). In White's time at Alcorn State, he helped the Braves record an 18-8 record and coached two different quarterbacks to earn Southwestern Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year recognition.
White was one of the most explosive players in college football over his career with the West Virginia, earning Big East Offensive Player of the Year honors in back-to-back seasons (2006-07). As a starter, he led the Mountaineers to a 35-8 record and became the first quarterback to start and win four bowl games. White threw for 6,051 yards and 56 touchdowns in his career and added 4,480 yards and 47 scores on the ground, setting a then-NCAA record for rushing yards by a quarterback. The three-time first-team All-Big East winner (2006-08) was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame in 2018.
Following his record-setting career at West Virginia, White was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played in 13 games as a rookie and spent part of the 2013 season with Washington. In 2014, White played for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.
White, a native of Daphne, Ala., won a 6A state championship at Daphne High in football and a state title in baseball. As a baseball prospect coming out of high school, White was a fourth-round selection of the Anaheim Angels in 2004. He was later picked again by the Angels in 2007, the Cincinnati Reds in 2008 and New York Yankees in 2009.
White and his wife, Cristina, were married in June 2020 and have two daughters, Daphne and Clara, and two sons, Pat II and DuBois.
