Sheldon White

{{Short description|American football player and executive (born 1965)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}

{{BLP sources|date=February 2015}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Sheldon White

| position = Director of pro scouting

| number =

| current_team = Pittsburgh Steelers

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|3|1}}

| birth_place = Dayton, Ohio, U.S.

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 11

| weight_lb = 188

| high_school = Meadowdale (Dayton)

| college = Miami (OH) (1984–1987)

| draftyear = 1988

| draftround = 3

| draftpick = 62

| pastteams =

• New York Giants ({{NFL Year|1988|1989}})
• Detroit Lions ({{NFL Year|1990|1992}})
• Cincinnati Bengals ({{NFL Year|1993}})

| pastexecutive =

• Detroit Lions ({{NFL Year|1997|1999}})
  Scout
• Detroit Lions ({{NFL Year|2000|2008}})
  Director of pro personnel
• Detroit Lions ({{NFL Year|2009|2015}})
  Vice president of pro personnel
• Detroit Lions ({{NFL Year|2015}})
  Interim general manager
• Michigan State (2016–2020)
  Executive director of player personnel and recruiting
• Washington Football Team ({{NFL Year|2021}})
  Scout
• Pittsburgh Steelers ({{NFL Year|2022}}–present)
  Director of pro scouting

| statlabel1 = Interceptions

| statvalue1 = 11

| statlabel2 = Interception yards

| statvalue2 = 151

| statlabel3 = Touchdowns

| statvalue3 = 1

| pfr = WhitSh20

}}

Sheldon Darnell White (born March 1, 1965) is an American football executive and former player who is the director of pro scouting for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Miami Ohio. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the third round of the 1988 NFL draft and later played for the Detroit Lions and Cincinnati Bengals before retiring after the 1993 season.{{Cite web |title=1988 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1988/draft.htm |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}

White became a scout for the Lions in 1997 before being promoted to director of pro personnel in 2000. He was further promoted to vice president of pro personnel in 2009. He served as their interim general manager following the firing of Martin Mayhew in 2015.{{cite web |url=http://www.detroitlions.com/news/lions-insider/article-1/Lions-announce-organizational-changes/acd16811-e1bb-48b4-9997-f9f00486d61b |title=Lions announce organizational changes |work=Detroit Lions |first=Tim |last=Twentyman |date=November 5, 2015 |accessdate=November 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160227013003/https://www.detroitlions.com/news/lions-insider/article-1/Lions-announce-organizational-changes/acd16811-e1bb-48b4-9997-f9f00486d61b |archive-date=February 27, 2016 |url-status=dead}} For the latter half of the 2010s, he served as the executive director of player personnel and recruiting for the Michigan State Spartans football team.{{Cite web |date=May 7, 2021 |title=Washington Announces Scouting Additions |url=https://www.washingtonfootball.com/news/washington-hires-jeff-beathard-sheldon-white-college-scouts |access-date=31 May 2021 |website=WashingtonFootball}} White served as a scout for the Washington Football Team in 2021 before joining the Pittsburgh Steelers as their director of pro scouting the following year.{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Charean |title=Steelers hire Sheldon White, promote Dan Colbert, announce Andy Weidl as assistant G.M. |url=https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/05/27/steelers-hire-sheldon-white-promote-dan-colbert-announce-andy-weidl-as-assistant-g-m/ |website=Pro Football Talk |date=May 27, 2022 |access-date=28 May 2022}}