Texas Tech University Athletics
Football
Xavier White
- Title:
- Offensive Assistant (Wide Receivers)
Player Bio (2019-23)
Xavier White returned to his alma mater in a new role prior to the 2025 season, joining the coaching side of the Texas Tech football program as an offensive assistant working specifically with the Red Raider wide receivers.
His return aligned perfectly for White as the Red Raiders went on to a historic 2025 campaign during his first season on staff, winning the Big 12 Conference title and appearing in the College Football Playoff for the first time. The Red Raiders were among the most-balanced offenses in the country with four different players with at least 600 receiving yards, including three from the wide receiver room in Caleb Douglas, Reggie Virgil and Coy Eakin. Texas Tech ended the year averaging 39.4 points per game, its highest clip since Patrick Mahomes II’s final year at quarterback in 2016.
Two members from the wide receiver room went on to hear their names called during the 2026 NFL Draft with Douglas going in the third round to the Miami Dolphins and Reggie Virgil following two rounds later to the Arizona Cardinals. Douglas led the Red Raiders with 846 receiving yards and seven touchdowns on his way to earning All-Big 12 second team accolades. Virgil and Eakin, meanwhile, were both All-Big 12 honorable mention selections.
This is the first coaching position for White, who concluded his playing career in 2023 as one of the most-versatile Red Raiders in recent memory. His hire reunited the Lubbock native with not only head coach Joey McGuire but offensive passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach Justin Johnson after he was White’s position coach as a senior.
White, a product of Lubbock Monterey High School, returned to West Texas after playing his true freshman season at Dodge City Community College in Kansas. He was a breakout performer of preseason camp prior to the 2019 campaign, rising from a walk-on to a member of Texas Tech’s receiver rotation by the season opener. He transitioned to the running back room the next season, giving the Red Raiders a dynamic option out of the backfield and in the return game.
White moved back to the wide receiver room upon McGuire’s hire in 2022 as he was Texas Tech’s leader in all-purpose yards that season and its second-leading receiver. White led the Red Raiders with 556 receiving yards as a senior in 2023 en route to concluding his career with 133 catches for 1,524 yards and six touchdowns.
White appeared in 51 games overall for the Red Raiders, totaling 2,731 all-purpose yards during that span thanks to an additional 754 rushing yards and five touchdowns on the ground and 453 yards as either a punt (46) or kick (407) returner. To date, he is one of only two Red Raiders since 2000 to record multiple games with at least 100 rushing yards in a career as well as two or more 100-yard receiving performances, joining Taurean Henderson.
White earned his bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech in 2022 in university studies. He married his wife, Jaiden, in June 2024.
Xavier White returned to his alma mater in a new role prior to the 2025 season, joining the coaching side of the Texas Tech football program as an offensive assistant working specifically with the Red Raider wide receivers.
His return aligned perfectly for White as the Red Raiders went on to a historic 2025 campaign during his first season on staff, winning the Big 12 Conference title and appearing in the College Football Playoff for the first time. The Red Raiders were among the most-balanced offenses in the country with four different players with at least 600 receiving yards, including three from the wide receiver room in Caleb Douglas, Reggie Virgil and Coy Eakin. Texas Tech ended the year averaging 39.4 points per game, its highest clip since Patrick Mahomes II’s final year at quarterback in 2016.
Two members from the wide receiver room went on to hear their names called during the 2026 NFL Draft with Douglas going in the third round to the Miami Dolphins and Reggie Virgil following two rounds later to the Arizona Cardinals. Douglas led the Red Raiders with 846 receiving yards and seven touchdowns on his way to earning All-Big 12 second team accolades. Virgil and Eakin, meanwhile, were both All-Big 12 honorable mention selections.
This is the first coaching position for White, who concluded his playing career in 2023 as one of the most-versatile Red Raiders in recent memory. His hire reunited the Lubbock native with not only head coach Joey McGuire but offensive passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach Justin Johnson after he was White’s position coach as a senior.
White, a product of Lubbock Monterey High School, returned to West Texas after playing his true freshman season at Dodge City Community College in Kansas. He was a breakout performer of preseason camp prior to the 2019 campaign, rising from a walk-on to a member of Texas Tech’s receiver rotation by the season opener. He transitioned to the running back room the next season, giving the Red Raiders a dynamic option out of the backfield and in the return game.
White moved back to the wide receiver room upon McGuire’s hire in 2022 as he was Texas Tech’s leader in all-purpose yards that season and its second-leading receiver. White led the Red Raiders with 556 receiving yards as a senior in 2023 en route to concluding his career with 133 catches for 1,524 yards and six touchdowns.
White appeared in 51 games overall for the Red Raiders, totaling 2,731 all-purpose yards during that span thanks to an additional 754 rushing yards and five touchdowns on the ground and 453 yards as either a punt (46) or kick (407) returner. To date, he is one of only two Red Raiders since 2000 to record multiple games with at least 100 rushing yards in a career as well as two or more 100-yard receiving performances, joining Taurean Henderson.
White earned his bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech in 2022 in university studies. He married his wife, Jaiden, in June 2024.
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