Drills for Youth Football Teams

Last week, I sent out a request for my newsletter subscribers to send in their favorite [tag]drills for youth football[/tag].   Check out the [tag]football drills[/tag] below!

From Dee…
One of the [tag]football[/tag] teams I currently coach consists of 7 and 8 year olds.   I have some huge construction cones (4 or 5) that I use for [tag]football agility drills[/tag].

I stand them up and do:
Zig Zags (Running Back Drill) with a spin at the end I usually have a parent assistant with a handbag hitting them at the conclusion.

I’ll lay them down and do:
Lateral hops
Side shuffles
High Steps
Zig Zag Bear Crawls

From Terry…
I coach here in Springhill, Fl. and the age group is 9 to 10 years old. Last season we missed the super bowl by one game.
I found that at this age group we work on mainly blocking and tackling [tag]football drill[/tag]s. Believe it or not I do not recommend the Oklahoma drill. I work on footing and blocking aggressively. We also spend a great deal of time working on special team off side kicks. This is where we win most of our games because most football coaches at this level do not put a lot of time in special teams, and they make the mistake in kicking the ball off into the open field to our two best open field runners.