It Didn't Take Long for Oklahoma State to Find Another Linebacker with Trip White

STILLWATER – It didn’t take long for Oklahoma State to recoup the loss earlier this week of linebacker Jeff Roberson, the starter for most of this season, decided on Monday to go into the transfer portal as a graduate and eventually committed to Minnesota. The Cowboys found their new linebacker in the transfer portal out of the SEC and it’s a player that they recruited out of high school as a safety. Trip White is originally out of Little Rock (Parkview), Ark. where he played quarterback and safety and helped lead Parkview to the Arkansas Class 6A semifinals his senior season and earned All-State honors in Class 6A.

University of Mississippi Athletics

Trip White

Oklahoma State recruited White aggressively as did Arkansas, Utah, and Baylor among others. It was Mississippi that got his commitment. White is now 6-3, 220 pounds and has lettered two seasons for the Rebels playing primarily on special teams. He will be a redshirt junior heading to Stillwater.

This past season he played in all 13 games and on nearly every special team snap. He played linebacker in the games with Furman and Georgia Southern and finished with one tackle. He entered the transfer portal on Dec. 18, but he stayed with the team and continued to practice until Mississippi completed their season with a win over Duke in the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville on Jan. 2. White played in the bowl win.

In 2023, as a redshirt freshman, he played in five games with no statistics. 

University of Mississippi Athletics

White (30) lined up against Georgia Tech.

His true freshman season in 2022, White lettered right out of the game and played a lot of football in just three games before the decision was made to redshirt him. He had his career high four tackles against Georgia Tech and finished the season with eight total tackles.

White was a top 15 recruit according to multiple sources in the state of Arkansas. He played defense primarily as a junior and was a team captain as both a junior and senior. That junior season he finished with 59 tackles, 5 tackles-for-loss, 2 interceptions, 2 fumbles forced, two fumbles recovered, 8 passes defended, and two blocked punts. His senior season he played mostly quarterback completing 125-of-186 passing for 2,035-yards. He threw for 19 touchdowns, but he also ran for 445-yards and 7 touchdowns. 

Aat Mississippi, he has been on the Dean’s Honor Roll, the Chancellor’s Honor Roll, and he has twice made the SEC Academic Honor Roll.