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Texas High School Football Coach
Special thanks to Gregg, a Texas high school football coach, for sending this one in. If you’ve looking for offensive lineman drills, you should try this out…
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The 3 Building Blocks Every Defensive Lineman Needs
Some coaches believe that the game is won or lost in the trenches, and it’s easy to see why. With extra time in the pocket, or bigger running lanes, it can make…
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The Art Of The Turnover – Fumble Recovery Secrets
While it’s not something you would think you need to drill very often, working on fumble recovery can have game changing results – for your defense and your off…
- The Ball Punch Drill One good offensive line drill to do is ball punches. Use some heavier balls (ten pounds or so) that will over train the hands. Tell your guys to put the heavy b…
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The Difference Between Good and Great – Defensive Line Tips
Once you’ve got your basic defensive line moves down, the next thing you’re going to want to work on is the counter step. Eventually the offensive lineman is …
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The Eye Opener Tackling Drill
In this video, we are demonstrating “The Eye Opener Tackling Drill”. This is a fantastic tackling drill that has been used throughout the years because it incor…
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The Football Coach
Take a look at this submission from the football coach, Dan. A great example of a football defense line drill that can work with all age groups.
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The Gap Blocking Drill
Drill Type: Offensive Line Drill Purpose This drill focuses on reading and plugging up gaps before the ball carrier can get out into the linebacking core or s…
- The Gauntlet Speed Drill If you’re looking for football conditioning drills try this one that we do frequently. It keeps the competition in the practice, builds fast feet and endurance,…
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The Importance Of Non-Contact & Low Impact Football Drills
In today’s blog post, I want to take the opportunity to impress upon you the importance of making a commitment to non-contact and low impact football drills for…
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The Popcorn Agility Drill
This is a fantastic warm up and agility drill that we like to do to get the eyes and hands ready to go – it allows players to work on both agility and catching …
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The Redirect Drill
Drill Type: Defensive Line Drill Purpose This defensive line drill focuses on having a quick reaction, getting across the line, finding the ball, and getting …
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The Single-Barrel Drill
Drill Type: Running Back Drill Purpose In this youth football drill, the barrel serves as an offensive lineman or an offensive blocker. And we’re running ri…
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The “Star” Non-Contact Drill for Conditioning & Speed!
In today’s blog post, we are talking about another excellent non-contact drill called “The Star Drill”. It’s a great non-contact drill to get players comforta…
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Three Weave Drill
Drill Type: Defensive Back Drill Purpose Allows players to become comfortable with attacking a receiver three times in different directions. Set Up Place 2 pl…
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Tips for Football Running Backs
Duke came up with some great suggestions and tips for football running backs. Try this drill with your team at your next practice.
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Top 5 At-Home Football Drills
Looking for at-home football drills? Here are our top 5 – with a focus on speed and agility, ballhandling, and throwing accuracy. Each one can be done right in …
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Training Drills for Youth Football
One of my readers actually suggested this idea for training drills for youth football recently. I’ve included it for you below.
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Trick Football Plays
This idea for trick football plays was sent to me from Todd. It includes some great plays you can begin using with your team right away.
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Ultimate Football
Purpose To teach players how to read and react to the defense to find open seams in the defense. Set Up This drill can be done a variety of ways, from 3 on 3 to…
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Video: Run Blocking & Using The Hands
Football has evolved into a hand contact game. It’s all strength, and all upper body. Your feet take you to where your block needs to go, but you use your hands…
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Video: Run Blocking Essentials For Youth Football
Today’s video segment discusses some essential run blocking techniques that you need to address with your players. From hand positioning to footwork, you’ll g…
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Video: Step Over Drill for Linebackers
The above video discusses the “step over” pee wee football drill for linebackers. It’s a terrific drill for improving upon your players’ agility. The step over …
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Video: The Read Step Drill to Work on False Steps
During the above video, you’re going to learn about a youth football drill called the read step drill. During the read step drill, we’ll get lines of three line…
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Video: Wheel Drill for Defensive Linemen
During the above video, you’ll learn about the Wheel Drill, a terrific drill to do with your linemen during your next football practice. This is a great drill f…
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Warm Up Drills – Zig Zag Agility Drill
This zig zag agility drill is great to use for warm up drills. Try it out at your next practice.
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Watch and Learn About the Three Line Ball Drill
During the above video, you’ll learn about a great football linebacker drill called the Three Line Ball Drill. This is a reaction drill where the inside guy is …
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Watch to Learn About Some Awesome Running Back Drills
During the above video, you’ll learn about several football running back drills that will be perfect for getting your players ready for game time. Pyramid Cours…
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Wave Drill
Play Type: Linebacker Drill Purpose Teach runners to attack the hole and drive hard, and teach tackling positions to read a ball carrier and stop the attack…
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Wide Receiver Drills Football
When a defense is playing zone in the secondary, a receiver needs to be able to find the seam in that zone in order to be successful. Here are wide receiver dr…
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Wide Receiver Drills – 2 Ways To Beat The Press
Being able to beat the press is absolutely vital part to every wide receiver’s game. If they can be neutralized or slowed down significantly by the press, then …
- Wide Receiver Drills – Football Receiver Drill The objective of these wide receiver drills are to teach players how to catch the ball at the sidelines.
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Wide Receiver Drills – Improving Hand Strength and Coordination
As a wide receiver, it can be touh to work on your skills on your own, as by definition of your position you need someone else there to practice with yout. But …
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Wide Receiver Drills – Making The Tough Catch
While you don’t want to rely on your receivers being able to pull off the spectacular catch, it can be a huge momentum swing when somehow a receiver snags a bal…
- Wide Receiver Drills – Off The Wall Football Drill! Here is one of the football wide receiver drills that I created to do with my wide receivers that is a little off the wall! The players really enjoy it because:…
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Winningest Football Coach
Looking to be the winningest football coach in your league? You’ve come to the right place! Try out the drill below and let me know how it goes for you.
Guide · Football Coaching
Football Drills
A football drills library organizes practice work by position and skill so coaches can build purposeful periods instead of random cone drills.
797 football drills with purpose, setup, instructions, and coaching tips.
How to install a youth playbook
- Start with a Beginner workflow or Easy plays.
- Add position drills from the drills library.
- Align language with Football Guides.
- Export a share graphic for your staff chat.