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PlayerDevin White · LB, Detroit Lions, Model Score 89.0Be the Lions GM

Devin White

Detroit LionsUNDERPAID
Pos LB
Updated September 29, 2026

Model Score

89.0 MODEL
2019
79.0
2020
87.7
2021
85.4
2022
82.2
2023
84.5
2025
94.2
2026
89.0

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

STM Take

Super Bowl LV ring plus 2020 Pro Bowl plus the 2023 tier 1 (#4) STTM peak puts White in the rare bust-with-elite-spike LB class. The LSU 2018 Butkus Award plus the 5th overall draft slot established the highest expectations of his class. The 2026 question is whether White returns to tier 2-3 territory with the Raiders or whether the structural mid-career instability returns.

White came out of LSU as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 1st-round pick (5th overall) in 2019 after winning the 2018 Butkus Award. He won Super Bowl LV with the Buccaneers plus the 2019 LSU CFP National Championship and made the 2020 Pro Bowl. He has bounced through the Buccaneers, Eagles, Texans, and now Raiders across seven NFL seasons. His STTM career runs tier 2 (#16) in 2020, tier 7 (#53) in 2021, tier 5 (#39) in 2022, tier 1 (#4) peak in 2023, and tier 4 (#28) in 2025.

Strengths

  • Super Bowl LV ring plus 2020 Pro Bowl plus 2023 tier 1 (#4) STTM peak plus LSU 2018 Butkus Award establishes elite career résumé.
  • 5th overall draft pedigree plus seven years of NFL survival gives him real veteran market value.

Concerns

  • Career STTM volatility (tier 2 in 2020, tier 7 in 2021, tier 5 in 2022, tier 1 in 2023, tier 4 in 2025) confirms the ceiling is highly team-fit and scheme dependent.
  • Multi-team late-career chapter plus the Raiders' broader defensive identity instability puts continued White production partly outside his control.

What to watch: Whether White returns to tier 3 (top 25) in 2026 with the Raiders, the threshold for confirming the 2023 ceiling can be recaptured.

Comps

Overall match
size, testing and production, same career stage
Coming out
pros whose college production, size and testing looked like his

Devin White Injury StatusNot listed

Devin White is not on the injury report as of Sep 29. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Devin White Stats This Season · 2 games

4
Solo Tackles
0
TFL
0
Sacks
0
INT
0
Pass Deflections
0
FF

Draft & College

Round 1, pick 5 · Tampa Bay Buccaneers · 2019
LSU (SEC)
Taken
#5
where he actually went
Consensus board
6th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#9
among LB in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2016-2018 · 35 games · partial record
286 tackles, 29 TFL, 8.5 sacks, 1 INT

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Coming out
4.42s
40 yd
22 reps
Bench
39.5"
Vertical
118"
Broad
7.07s
3-cone
4.17s
Shuttle

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