Jordan White was not selected in this year's NFL Draft. The former Western Michigan receiver holds a number of school records and led the NCAA FBS in three categories his senior season.
Jordan White spent more than half of a decade in Kalamazoo working towards one goal.
The six-year Western Michigan University receiver realized that dream Saturday when he was selected by the New York Jets in the seventh round of the NFL Draft with the 244th overall pick.
White, 23, holds the WMU school record for career receptions with 306, most receptions in a season (140), most receptions in a game (16), most career receiving yards (4,187), most yards in a season (1,911) and most in a single game (265, against Purdue in the Little Caesar’s Bowl).
He also has the most receiving touchdowns in a season (17). He is second to Greg Jennings in most career touchdowns with 32, seven less than Jennings and White finished his career one touchdown shy of Jennings record for most touchdowns in a game (4).
White led the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision in total receiving yards (1,911), total receptions (140) and receptions per-game (10.77) during his senior season in 2011.
The former North Ridgeville (Ohio) High School star was granted a sixth year of eligibility for 20011 after missing all of the ’06 and ’08 seasons at WMU because of two separate knee injuries.
The injuries and a slow 40-yard dash time presumably played big parts in White’s mid-round selection.
White ran a 40 time of 4.69 seconds at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, which was the second-slowest time of the 60 receivers graded by NFLDraftScout.com.
He recorded the second-slowest time (4.69) of the 60 players graded by NFLDraftScout.com.
White joins Green Bay Packers receiver Greg Jennings as former Western Michigan star wide outs to be selected in the NFL Draft in the last six years.
Jennings was selected in the second round and 52nd overall in the 2006 draft and the Kalamazoo Central High School graduate still holds WMU’s school record of most all-purpose yards of 5,093.
Former Western Michigan star receiver Jamarko Simmons went undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft. He was signed as an undrafted free agent and then released that offseason by the Green Bay Packers, who Jennings was drafted by and still plays for.
Simmons was signed to the Jets’ practice squad last October, but now plays for the Arena Football League’s Jacksonville Sharks.
More WMU football draft coverageEmail David Drew at ddrew1@mlive.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/Drew_on_WMU
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