Cody White’s Seahawks stay ends, and the veteran wideout lands on the Raiders practice squad

The Seattle Seahawks are moving on from veteran wide receiver Cody White, and the next step of his NFL career will be on another team’s practice squad. According to Yahoo Sports, White will be with the Las Vegas Raiders’ practice squad, marking a departure from the Seahawks after the team chose not only to release him but also not to retain him in that developing role that had been common for him in recent seasons.

The practical meaning of the Seahawks’ decision is that White’s chances to remain in Seattle’s building for another week, a month, or an extended evaluation window were closed. Practice squads are often where teams keep experienced depth players in the building while they sort out the active roster and game-day needs. In this case, Seattle reportedly elected to remove him from the Seahawks’ immediate orbit rather than keep him available as a practice option.

White’s landing spot also carries a football logic that matters for a receiver trying to stabilize his role. Yahoo Sports reports that his Raiders opportunity comes as a reunion with a former Seahawks offensive coordinator. That matters because the terminology, route coaching points, and day-to-day expectations often transfer more smoothly when a player reconnects with a scheme leader from a prior stop.

For the Raiders, bringing in a receiver with recent knowledge of a Seahawks offensive structure, even indirectly through coaching continuity, can be useful in the middle-to-late phases of training camp and the preseason-to-roster transition. Practice squads are not just about handing out reps, they are about maintaining a group of players who can absorb the system quickly and potentially be elevated if an active roster need appears.

Seattle’s part in this story is also notable for what it suggests about its roster direction. Keeping a veteran on the practice squad for continuity is a frequent organizational choice, especially when a player has already worked through the ebb and flow of camp and the regular-season roster cutdowns. Yahoo Sports frames Seattle’s move as somewhat surprising, not just for the release but for the lack of a practice-squad retention.

As White turns the page in Las Vegas, the season’s next checkpoint is straightforward: whether he can earn familiarity in the Raiders’ environment fast enough to become more than a weekly practice body. If the coaching reunion provides a shortcut to understanding, the goal becomes timing, execution on route details, and offering the kind of grasp that makes a mid-season promotion possible if circumstances change.

This is the sort of roster churn that happens at the margins in the NFL, but it can still reshape a team’s depth chart and a player’s confidence. For White, it is a chance to show that the coaching connection is not only a coincidence, but a functional fit that translates into continued opportunity.