It's well-documented that the Las Vegas Raiders' head coach raided the Seattle Seahawks to fill in his roster. Yes, that phrasing was intentional. It's early, but at 2-0, no former Seahawk has come through with a bigger game for Klint Kubiak than wide receiver Cody White.
White wasn't a cast-off in Seattle by any means. I get it, five catches on seven targets sounds like a whole lotta nothing. But dig just a little bit, and you see that he racked up 134 yards on those five catches. Four went for first downs, and there was that spectacular 60-yard score against the Commanders in Week 9 on Sunday Night Football.
White was a standout on special teams as well. But the Seahawks' wide receiver room is stacked. Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Cooper Kupp, and Rasheed Shaheed aren't going anywhere.
Cody White proves the Raiders were right to steal him from the Seattle Seahawks
Second-year stud Tory Horton is playing his way back into form, and there was just no way to deny Montorie Foster, Jr. As it turned out, Emanuel Henderson Jr. slipped through to Seattle's ready squad. Klint Kubiak wasn't about to let his former boss keep White, though.
But Klint Kubiak wasn't about to let another Seattle guy slip through his fingers. White made the squad and was activated last week versus the Dolphins. He got 11 snaps on offense, but was only targeted once. Just as he did in Seattle, White got plenty of work on special teams in his first game for Vegas. As all 12s know, White isn't the only former Seattle player that Kubiak landed.
This game featured a Dareke Young sighting, too. He only had one catch, but he made it count. Trailing the Chargers 14-10, the Raiders needed a big play. They certainly got that, as Young was on the receiving end of a perfectly executed 27-yard flea-flicker play. That took the Raiders to the Los Angeles 13-yard line.
Then it was time for the Cody White show. Las Vegas got the ball to the Chargers' 11-yard line. On third and five, Cousins fired a perfect strike to White in the end zone. White had to stretch out every inch of his 6'3" frame to pull the ball in for the go-ahead score. Despite this being his fifth year in the league, it was only his second career touchdown.
The score didn't change until late in the fourth. With the game still in the balance, Cousins found White in the end zone again. This time, it was an 11-yard strike that I could have caught. Okay, maybe in my dreams. But no one was within five yards of White as the Chargers' defense slept on the versatile wideout.
The wildest part of the story is that White was only elevated from the Raiders' practice squad on Saturday. Yeah, Vegas isn't cool enough to have a ready squad. It's certainly paid off for the Seahawks. No matter what they call it, it clearly paid off for the Raiders today.
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