1. Sharod Lamor "Roddy" White was born on November 2,1981 and is an American former professional football player who spent his entire career as a wide receiver with the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League.
54 Facts About Roddy White
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Roddy White played college football for the UAB Blazers, and was selected by the Falcons in the first round of the 2005 NFL draft.
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Roddy White attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he was a standout wide receiver for the UAB Blazers football team.
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Roddy White caught 163 passes for 3,112 yards and 26 touchdowns in four seasons.
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Roddy White played under head coach Watson Brown while at UAB.
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Roddy White was inducted into the UAB Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017.
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Roddy White helped lead UAB to their first bowl game in school history.
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Roddy White finished his senior season with 71 receptions for 1,452 yards and 14 scores.
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Roddy White was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the first round of the 2005 NFL draft with the 27th overall pick.
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Roddy White was the sixth wide receiver to be selected that year.
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Roddy White made a fantastic leaping catch over three defenders on a trick play against the New Orleans Saints during Week 14 for a 54-yard touchdown, but dropped a crucial touchdown catch the next week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Roddy White ranked fifth among all rookie wide receivers in 2005 with 446 receiving yards.
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Roddy White had his best game of the season against the Dallas Cowboys where he had three receptions for 104 yards.
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Roddy White recorded 30 receptions for 505 yards in his second season.
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Roddy White was fined $10,000 by the league for his actions.
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Roddy White became the first Falcon wide receiver since Terance Mathis in 1999 to reach 1,000 single-season receiving yards on December 23,2007, against the Arizona Cardinals.
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Roddy White finished tied for eighth among all NFL wide receivers in receiving yards in 2007 with 1,202 yards.
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Roddy White followed that up the next week, he had nine receptions for 112 yards and a touchdown against the Chicago Bears.
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Roddy White's 2008 season was an improvement over the previous year, finishing fourth in the NFL in receiving yards.
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Roddy White finished the year with 1,382 receiving yards, 88 receptions, and seven touchdowns.
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Roddy White broke Alfred Jenkins's team record of 1,358 receiving yards, which stood since 1981.
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On December 16,2008, Roddy White was named to the 2009 Pro Bowl, the first of his career, along with fellow Falcons running back Michael Turner.
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On July 31,2009, Roddy White began a holdout, boycotting the 2009 training camp in an attempt at an early contract extension.
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Roddy White had eight receptions for a career-high 210 yards as well as two touchdowns, one of which was for 90 yards.
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Roddy White closed out the regular season on January 3,2010, with six receptions for 66 yards and a touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Roddy White finished the 2009 season with 85 receptions, 1,153 yards, and a career-high 11 touchdowns.
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Roddy White became only the second Falcon player to record three straight 1,000 yard seasons.
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On January 26,2010, Roddy White was selected to his second consecutive Pro Bowl.
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Roddy White earned NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors for his game against Cincinnati.
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Roddy White earned First team All-Pro honors and a Pro Bowl nomination for the 2010 season.
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In 2010, Roddy White led the NFL in receptions with 115 and the NFC in receiving yards with 1,389.
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Roddy White was ranked 24th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2011.
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Roddy White started off the 2011 season with eight receptions for 61 yards against the Chicago Bears on September 11.
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Roddy White closed out the 2011 regular season with 69 yards against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on New Year's Day.
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Roddy White recorded 100 receptions for 1,296 yards and eight touchdowns.
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On January 11,2012, Roddy White was added to the NFC Pro Bowl Roster replacing Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson due to a sore Achilles tendon.
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In 2011, Roddy White broke the franchise record for receptions, passing Terence Mathis's mark of 573.
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Roddy White was ranked 65th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2012.
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Roddy White picked it back up in Week 14, with nine receptions for 117 yards and a touchdown against the Carolina Panthers.
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Roddy White closed out his 2012 regular season on December 30 with had five receptions for 42 yards against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Roddy White was ranked 39th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2013.
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In Week 7, Roddy White missed the first game in his nine-year NFL career ending his streak of playing in 133 straight games.
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Roddy White finished the 2013 season with 63 receptions for 711 receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns.
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On July 24,2014, Roddy White signed a contract extension worth $30 million over four years.
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Roddy White finished the 2014 season with 80 receptions for 921 receiving yards and seven receiving touchdowns.
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On March 2,2016, Roddy White was released by the Falcons.
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On June 12,2017, Roddy White retired as an Atlanta Falcon.
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On June 11,2019, the Falcons announced that Roddy White will be inducted into the Falcons Ring of Honor.
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Roddy White was inducted into the Falcons Ring of Honor during the game against the Carolina Panthers on December 8,2019.
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In 2007, Roddy White was fined $10,000 by the NFL for displaying a shirt in support of Michael Vick who was at the time serving a prison sentence for a criminal conviction related to dog fighting.
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Roddy White received the most backlash for the following tweet: "All them jurors should go home tonight and kill themselves for letting a grown man get away with killing a kid".
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In 2014, Roddy White was criticized for reneging on a public bet he tweeted regarding a Duke win in the 2014 NCAA basketball championship.
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Roddy White had promised season tickets, front row at the 50-yard line.
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When Roddy White lost the bet, he offered a ticket to a Bears game instead.