Maine Youth Football – Tip Drill

Phil, one of my subscribers, wrote in to suggest these football drills he uses with his Maine youth football team. Keep ‘em coming.

From Phil…
We are a new high school program (this will be our 4th season) and have about 30 – 40 players at the most every year, so we have kids playing both sides of the ball. Some of our receivers have been on the “D” line. Kids could end up playing anywhere so everyone does this football drill.

We do a “Tip Drill” (it’s probably nothing new to you veteran football coaches).
We have kids in lines of 6 – 7 kids.
A football coach is facing them with ball in hand. The first player starts running towards coach as he’s “Passing” the ball.
The player tips the ball so that it goes backwards to the next player jogging behind him. The first player runs to the back and it continues until we go through twice without the ball dropping.

Then we change it up:
The player will tip the ball behind him to his left or right or straight back. We have players in all 3 spots and let the “Tipper” decide where to tip the ball (like if your playing CB and the FS is coming into help on the pass). So he’ll tip it or bat it towards the other player and that would be our “Tip / Interception Drill”.

It’s a football drill that works for us, being so young. It teaches the players to keep their hands up, helps with reaction and keeps the players focused. Also with the “Tip / Interception Drill”, after the ball is “intercepted” we turn into offense and run like you would during a game, block on air, Wedge up if you can, Etc.

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