What is Football Footwork Drills – String It Out?
Football Footwork Drills – String It Out is a free football drill on FantasyHQ’s Football Coaching hub for youth work. Use the setup notes and coaching cues below to add it to this week’s practice plan.
- Football Footwork Drills – String It Out is part of FantasyHQ’s free football drills library.
- Focus: Youth.
How to run this drill
Football Footwork Drills – String It Out is built for youth, high-school, and volunteer coaches who need clear drill language — not a random cone circuit. Beginners can install the first progression; experienced staffs can layer competition.
- Read the purpose once, then walk the setup on air before live tempo.
- Demonstrate one clean rep so players see landmarks, pad level, and finish.
- Run short competitive periods — quality reps beat long lines.
- Close with one coaching cue players can repeat in the huddle next period.
Full drill
The defensive players learned to turn a play inside, but they can also use these [tag]football footwork drills[/tag] to string out a play by stuffing the different gaps and taking on blocks early in an offensive play’s development.
What you need – You can field a full offense and defense for this [tag]football[/tag] [tag]drill[/tag], but it should only be run at half speed to illustrate the tactic.
How this drill works – On any play, pursuit is important. Pursuit on an outside play should try to plug up all holes and take on all blockers so there is no blocking downfield for a runner.
In this drill, the [tag]defense[/tag] has to try to plug all of the holes and take on all of the blockers in order to string the outside running play right to the sideline.
Result – Filling holes and taking on blocks makes it hard for an RB to find a place to run.
