Football Footwork Drills – String It Out

The defensive players learned to turn a play inside, but they can also use these [tag]football footwork drills[/tag] to string out a play by stuffing the different gaps and taking on blocks early in an offensive play’s development.

What you need – You can field a full offense and defense for this [tag]football[/tag] [tag]drill[/tag], but it should only be run at half speed to illustrate the tactic.

How this drill works – On any play, pursuit is important.   Pursuit on an outside play should try to plug up all holes and take on all blockers so there is no blocking downfield for a runner.  

In this drill, the [tag]defense[/tag] has to try to plug all of the holes and take on all of the blockers in order to string the outside running play right to the sideline.

Result – Filling holes and taking on blocks makes it hard for an RB to find a place to run.