Football Coaching – Receiver Drill for Youth and Older

This football coaching drill is for youth receivers and older. It helps them learn proper hand position for the three types of catches they basically ever need to make and it makes a good warm up drill as well.

Simply have two players stand facing each other about 8 yards apart. They throw the football to each other aiming for 5 spots. The first three have the players facing each other and the throws are 1. high right, 2. high left and 3. low center…basically at 2 o’clock, 10 o’clock and 6 o’clock. The player has thumbs together (triangle) for 2 and 10 and pinkies together for 6 o’clock. With fingers spread and looking the ball in. They do this for 2-3 minutes and then switch to an over the shoulder catch. Now the receiver turns their back to the passer, slightly opened up to the shoulder the ball will come over. The idea is to learn to catch balls thrown over the shoulder (post, corner, up) with pinkies together and fingers spread, looking the ball in. They pass back and forth to one shoulder and switch to the other shoulder so both sides are developed. This is key…many times receivers have a strong side and a weak side and we want to develop both.

You start slow and as they learn proper hand positioning the drill can go very quickly. You can get a lot of catches in over a few minutes.

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