What is Football Training Drills – Pass Rushing Defensive Drill?
Football Training Drills – Pass Rushing Defensive Drill is a free football drill on FantasyHQ’s Football Coaching hub for defensive line work. Use the setup notes and coaching cues below to add it to this week’s practice plan.
- Football Training Drills – Pass Rushing Defensive Drill is part of FantasyHQ’s free football drills library.
- Focus: Defensive Line.
How to run this drill
Football Training Drills – Pass Rushing Defensive Drill 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
One of my favorite defensive drills is this Pass Rushing Drill. Even though it is a defensive drill to work on pass rushing, the other linemen can work on their drive blocking techniques to counter the defender and this should make everybody that much better.
Pass Rushing Defensive Drill
1: Line up 5 linemen behind each other 5 yards apart acting as O-linemen.
2: Place the football 10 yards behind the last linemen.
3: One player at a time, line up in front of 1st player in 3 pt. stance.
4: On the whistle, D-linemen performs a Rip move then runs to the next teammate and gets set again. From there he performs in no particular order–SWIM, HAMMER, SPIN, and finishes with a BULL RUSH to get the ball.
Note: Defender should run to the next station, get set and wait for the whistle or a new cadence from the Coach.
After the players get better at this drill, this can be used as a warm up drill every day.
