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Buccaneers’ linebacker Devin White on his offseason trade request: “I’m stupid for trying to leave.”

Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Devin White made headlines this offseason when he decided he had had enough of his current contract and therefore, enough of Tampa Bay. The 2019 first-round pick went public with his displeasure requesting that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers trade him away. Predictably, the Buccaneers dismissed his trade request like kids at the end of a school day.

Unlike Florida weather, the trail went cold until May, when Buccaneers linebacker coach Larry Foote addressed the defender’s situation—

“He’s not going to be the first and he’s not going to be the last, we know that… Like I told him ‘You’re getting paid $11 million this year.