I’ve gotten a whole bunch of requests for fresh ideas for football practice over the past few days. Here’s an idea from Chris that works well and is an excellent football conditioning drill. Give it a try!
From Chris…
I play a game called ultimate football with my youth football players. It is like ultimate frisbee only with a football.
We play sideline to sideline and use cones that are about 20-30 yards apart, depending on how many players on each team, for the field (so the field is 20-30 yards wide by 51 yards long). The idea is to move the football down the field by passing it. If the ball is dropped or a pass incomplete the other team takes over from the spot of the incompletion. If a pass is completed the player who catches the ball is not allowed to run with it, he has to pass it to another teammate. The pass can be forward or backward and the team can take as long as it likes to move the ball down the field. If the ball is moved past the sideline (end zone) that team scores (6 points). Then they kick off to the other team from their goal line.
Play first team to score 3 touchdowns wins or whatever number of scores you want. Sometimes we will play 2 or 3 games of this at once. Maybe have linemen going against linemen, receivers going against receivers, and QBs and running backs going against other QBs and running backs. The smaller the numbers on each team the more everyone is involved and the less chance for someone to get hurt.
Very good for conditioning because everyone is constantly moving/running. Good for evaluation purposes too, football coaches can watch and see who can throw the ball well, who can catch, who is competitive, who can cover, etc. The younger kids love it.
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