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Free youth football plays with diagrams, difficulty ratings (easy to hard), formation hubs, and install language built for peewee, Pop Warner, and volunteer staffs — not a paywalled PDF.
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Youth football diagrams ranked easy → hard, with formation filters for install week.
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22 Dive (Pro)
22 Dive is a basic play that allows you to quickly dive into the middle of the defense. With good timing and chemistry between the Quarterback and Running Back,…
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31 FB Dive (Pro)
Dive quickly into the middle of the field with this quick give to the Fullback. It can either be used as a simple way to grind up the middle in a short yardag…
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21 Double Dive (Pro)
Implement back-to-back fake hand-offs to throw off the defense. Fire the backs quickly at the inside holes, faking to one and handing it off to the other with …
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29 Weak Sweep (Pro)
Use 29 Weak Sweep as a leverage play depending on how the defense lines up. If their formation begins to favor the strong side of the field, a quick pitch to t…
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32 Double Dive (Pro)
Implement back-to-back fake hand-offs to throw off the defense. Fire the backs quickly at the inside holes, faking to one and handing it off to the other with …
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24 Blast (Pro)
Finding the right hole in the defensive front is one of the most important aspects of finding the weakness in any particular defense. The “4 Hole” is often tim…
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28 Sweep (Pro)
Youth football defenses often times can get in the bad habit of getting sucked inside as you pound the ball up the middle. This is when you can take advantage …
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32 FB Fake Sweep (Pro)
Throw the defense off by faking an outside pitch to your Running Back running wide, before subtly handing it off inside to your Fullback diving into the 2 Hole.…
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26 Off-Tackle (Pro)
Going of the outside shoulder of the Offensive Tackle make this a wider play, but not quite a sweep. This wide trajectory may tempt the defense to overrun the f…
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WR Power (Pro)
This play gives the defense a look that they are not familiar with. It is a simple blocking concept for the offensive line, but it throws a new look in the bac…
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10 QB Sneak (Pro)
The QB Sneak is a surprisingly effective Youth Football Play that is incredibly overlooked. It should not be relegated to only goal line situations, because it…
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25 Cutback (Pro)
The 25 Cutback play is a higher risk higher reward type play due to the fact that it requires more maneuvering in the backfield before the Running Back can make…
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33 FB Counter (Pro)
A quick counter to the Fullback can help puncture a hole in the interior of the defense. The movement of the Backs to one side will confuse the defense until t…
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16 QB Power (Pro)
The key to this play is to set it up with repeated successful QB Sweeps. Once the defense is over pursuing to the outside in order to catch the Quarterback on …
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18 QB Sweep (Pro)
The QB Sweep is the best way to get your athletic Quarterback out into the open. Not only does it place your QB in the open field, but this sweep play provides…
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23 Counter (Pro)
23 Counter is a great way to go against the grain of the defense by baiting them into flowing towards the strong side of the offense before cutting back and tak…
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Stops (Pro)
Start off your passing tree with the most basic of route concepts; the five yard Stop. The hardest part of passing the ball in youth football is the limited am…
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26 Power Counter (Pro)
A great play selection for a misdirection play to the strong side of the formation. Teach the running back to make a hard jab step to the side to throw off the…
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Flats (Pro)
Get your play makers to the outside quickly by running a quick flat route. This play should result in a high completion rate, as well as, vast open space for y…
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Quick Outs (Pro)
Get the ball to the outside quickly with nicely executed out routes. With your receivers out in the open field, if they can successfully catch the pass, there …
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12 QB Draw (Pro)
The Quarterback should take a five-step drop and linger in an upright passing position until his backs have passed in front of his line of sight. Once his back…
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Flood (Pro)
Send a flood to the outside by rolling out your Quarterback to the sideline along with Receivers flowing outside along with him.
The Quarterback will have thre…
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Hurricane (Pro)
The Hurricane play is a variation of the Flood play where the roles of the Receivers are swapped in order implement the same roll out passing concept, while sti…
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PA Corner (Pro)
Fake a run up the middle to suck the defense down into the middle of the field, and then throw the ball outside and over their heads with this killer Play Actio…
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PA Flats (Pro)
This is a useful play to get your play makers into the open field so that they can use their talents in space. Fake a run up the gut of the defense to tempt th…
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PA Fly (Pro)
Make a nice Play Action run fake up the middle before popping back to throw it over the heads of the entire defense on a deep fly route. The defense will think…
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Seams (Pro)
Create leverage on the deep safety by making him choose between the two deep seam routes running into the second level. The safety won’t be able to guard both s…
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Shallow Cross (Pro)
Shallow Cross is a great way to confuse the defense while still providing your team with a short pass that has a high probability for completion. With two rece…
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Smash (Pro)
Running double corner routes is the best way to stretch the defensive secondary to its absolute limits. Pick on the weakest corner back by throwing the ball up…
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Swings (Pro)
Swings is a great play to get your speedy backs to the outside of the field. Even though it is a short pass, the Quarterback must deliver the ball with precisi…
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Out & Up (Pro)
After you have properly set up the defense with consecutive Quick Out play calls, go for the home run with a double move by calling an Out & Up.
Keep the Quart…
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19 QB Naked (Pro)
This is one of the most high risk high reward running plays in the entire playbook. If you can bait the defense into getting sucked into the middle by running …
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Hail Mary (Pro)
This variation of the Hail Mary play sends all the receivers to the same place in the middle of the field in order to give the Quarterback a wide splash down ar…
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Stop & Go (Pro)
Use this double move to throw up a deep ball after the defense has started cheating close in on the stop routes. The keys to this play are a good explosion up …
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RB Sweep Pass (Pro)
The RB Sweep Pass is one of the most lethal trick plays possible if you have a Running Back that can throw the ball.
Set up the play by making the backfield ac…
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WR Reverse (Pro)
Send the play flying to the other direction with a Reverse. Utilize the speed of your Wingback and the lead blocking of your backs to seal the edge and to get …
Guide · Football Coaching
Youth football playbook
The Pro Formation is a youth football alignment used to organize backfield and receiver spacing. FantasyHQ groups play diagrams by formation so you can install a family of plays from one look.
40 Pro Formation plays with diagrams ranked easy to hard.
How to install a youth playbook
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