When I work with my wide receivers, this is one of the football receivers drills I found to help them.  Briefly freeze the ball after the catch and then tuck it and turn up field.

I make them look at the football as they freeze it and tell me what half of the football is up or toward them.  If the laces or words are toward them they call out “words.”  If the opposite side or blank side of the ball is toward them they call out “blanks.”

I like to start the year with this for most of the football drills we do and I will let them stop if they get in a good habit of “freezing” the ball and tucking it away properly.  If they relapse into lazy habits, I make them call it out again.

Small thing but seems to really help with their concentration and forming good habits.

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