Ricky White III: "This Was One Of The Best Weekends Of My Life"

Seahawks wide receiver Ricky White III described his rookie minicamp experience as "one of the best weekends" of his life (0:01). He expressed gratitude for the opportunity to practice in NFL facilities and compete with new teammates (0:38). White discussed his college experience with special teams, crediting his college special teams coordinator for teaching him valuable techniques in punt blocking (1:13). He mentioned working on building chemistry with quarterback Jalen Milroe as they learn the offense together (2:15).

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So with the team. Oh man, it was a blessing,
you know, to get here to work with these guys. Uh,
great coaching staff here, and I'm I'm super blessed. It
was one of the best weekends of my life for me.
So it is white family here. I do, yes, ma'am,
I do. I have brought out my mother, uh father,

(00:20):
and my two sisters and my girlfriend. They probably don't
typically give a chance to watch you practice. They do not.
They were super happy about it. You know, you this
is Seattle, great city, and I'm thankful that they hear. Also,
why would it one of your best weekends of your
life just being in the NFL you know club Uh,

(00:42):
getting to practice in uh facity like this. It's it's
a blessing really, uh being out there competing, uh, you know,
learning new plays, me new guys. Uh. Yeah, it's it's
a it's a great feeling from yesterday to today. There's
a day one and day two in terms of how
you practiced or anything like that. This h I would
definitely say now it was really you know, just going

(01:03):
out practicing EXEQ the things that I was being taught.
What was your your all the block punch you had
in college. What was kind of the key that had
h really saw I had a my special team corner
was James Cheves, great special teams coordinator. Gave me some
so much knowledge about punk blocking and just being a
great special teams player. Really, I learned so much technique

(01:27):
and detailed from him that comes with like chasing the
hip of the uh in man line of scrimmas defender
and that really just that get off, like pay more
attention to you, for sure. Any of the guys that
you got to know a little bit in the last
couple of days, who's talking about own on the like

(01:50):
on the team already? Yeah, uh, not really much of
the guys in the rookie class for sure. Man, Yeah,
that's pretty much. I mean I got to meet everybody
in my class, but Horton of course, Toy Horton. We
all just you know, came together as a good rookie class. Yeah.

(02:11):
I feel catching passes from Jail and Phil the last
couple of days. It's good. He's a great quarterback. You know,
we're we're in the same boat right now, learning the offense,
getting our installs together. We're just trying to get that
chemistry together. Really when it comes to special teams in college,
did they approach you first or did you approach them

(02:32):
and say, I want to be on a team. I
told my special teams coordinator that I need to be
on the field special teams. I feel like, you know,
when I was on the field that gave my team
and advantage to win. And I gave him a hundred
percent on every special team that I was on. How
special is it to be out here with Jackson when
the two of you guys were catalysts to getting ULV

(02:52):
to being a top team. It's really crazy how God works.
You know, he works some mysterious ways, and I'll give
him all the glue. Or just being able to be here,
you know, with my former teammate, we feeding off each
other's energy. Seeing him make plays today and yesterday, it
was just, you know, a great feeling. Anyone else, Thank you, sir,

(03:14):
Thank you ver