When you’re coaching youth football, players should learn how to cover their receivers properly. Use this drill to reinforce this.
What you need – Put three players together of similar skill (doesn’t matter if they are offense or defense at this point), and give them a football.
How this drill works – Each player will get the chance to play all of the different positions in this drill/game for the kids. One player will start off as the quarterback and another player as the receiver. They will use one of the routes from the team passing tree against the defensive back.
The defensive back has to try to cover the receiver so they cannot make the pass completion. Coaches should be coaching players to help them have the right backpedal, recognition of the route, and then to show them how to break on the ball. Coaches should also reinforce to players that they cannot make contact with the receiver until they catch the ball. Rotate the players each time a play is run.
Result – Players will soon learn to identify the different ways a player will run a pass route and be able to defend it when they see it.
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