Rachaad White says his grueling time at Mount SAC was key to his success with the Bucs

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Rachaad White never envisioned himself here. Outside in the sweltering summer heat on a Saturday afternoon in 2018. Standing on a street corner outside of a Toys R Us parking lot, Young Thug bumping through his earphones as he held up a sign that read “70% OFF: GOING OUT OF BUSINESS” in bold letters.

It wasn’t a job he enjoyed. But it paid him on the same day, which often meant he and his teammates could afford their next meal. White had to be out there.

“It was tough,” he said. “I didn’t like it, but I understood what I had to do in order to get to where I was trying to go.”

Just a few months earlier — and years before he became the starting running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who play at the Detroit Lions in an NFC divisional round playoff game Sunday — White arrived at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, to chase his dream of being a Division I football player. But junior college football in California comes with its own set of challenges.