Brady White is hungry. Literally and figuratively.
San Jose State recently became the first school to offer the quarterback. And more are certain to come -- he’s starting to garner interest from both Pac-12 and SEC schools.
While White waits for more offers to pour in, the Hart rising junior QB is now up to six meals a day to add a couple of lbs to his 6-foot-2 180-pound frame during the offseason. He feels the extra weight is needed to pass the “eye test” with college recruiters.
“My parents are nice,” White said about their aid of his heavy food consumption. “You just got to get bigger so they’re just pounding me with stuff.”
His day usually starts with his parents making him a ham and egg sandwich. He eats that, along with toast and peanut butter, a banana, an apple, and a protein shake. That’s followed by school, a couple of different practice sessions for White, who also plays basketball, and more eating.
For dinner he has his choice often going with “a bunch of burgers” or a steak dinner. He’ll also sneak in another meal before going to bed.
“(I) just treat eating and lifting as (something you do when) you want to get better with your abilities,” White said. “You just treat it just like that and you got to do it each and every day as hard as you can and just know that a positive is coming out of it.”
All food groups aside, there’s no denying the accuracy White exhibits as a passer. He completed 67 percent of his passes last season as a sophomore – his first as a starter to go along with 23 touchdowns and seven interceptions.
His accuracy has been a much talked about subject at passing league tournaments and camps during the offseason.
“When he does his mechanics correctly, it’s a tough ball to stop,” Hart coach Mike Herrington said. “He’s worked real hard at it throughout his young life. He loves playing quarterback and it’s his God-given ability to do that too. Some guys have worked at it hard and can’t do it but he’s got the ability plus the hard work he’s done.”
Even at a young age, White’s showed the innate ability to get receivers open and also deliver the ball on time as his pass catchers are coming out of their breaks.
“A lot of accuracy, I think, is timing – the mental part of the game,” White said. “You got to know what coverages you’re looking at and how the play works around that coverage.
“If you know what’s going to happen and where the defense is rolling or whatnot, I think that will help a lot with your accuracy and I think I’m a good mental quarterback as well as physically.”
Herrington now wants White to take on a larger leadership role. By his own admission, White wasn’t much of a talker after making the big jump to varsity from the freshman team in 2012.
This offseason, he’s become more vocal and says he wants to set the example and make sure his teammates are doing “what they’re supposed to do” this summer as they get ready for their Aug. 30 season opener at Corona Santiago.
He’ll have plenty of time to do that in between meals.
