This [tag]drill[/tag] will help your players learn how to recover a [tag]fumble[/tag] with the highest rate of success. This is a drill to include with all of your [tag]football coaching tools[/tag].
What you need – Set up two players of equal size against each other. This could be offensive linemen against defensive linemen, running backs against linebackers, or wide receivers against defensive backs. They will be in an area cordoned off by tackling dummies. The coach will put the ”˜fumble’ into play.
How this drill works – The players will lineup opposite of each other, inside the tackling dummies. The [tag]coach[/tag] will put the ball into play (roll, toss, bounce, etc.) and the players will go after it.
Coaches should coach the proper fumble recover technique – and this means NOT necessarily with the hands. The slide technique, where a player uses their body to shield the other player from the ball, while corralling the ball with their hands is the most effective way to teach players to bring in a fumble. Far too often fumbles are not recovered because players want to try to pick it up and run with it.
Possession of the [tag]football[/tag] should be stressed over the actual advancement of the ball after it has been recovered.
Result – Your players will increase their overall success of getting control of a loose ball on the ground with repeated practice of this drill.
