Here is a drill to try for youth football coaching. This is a good football drill to help DB’s and LB’s shift gears between blitzing and coverage plays.
HIT-RUN-HIT
1. Set up 3 or more standing pads (or linemen…) in a somewhat vertical line.
2. The DB lines up in his normal position, but without the rest of the defense.
3. The football coach calls out HIT-RUN-HIT, or RUN-HIT-RUN, or RUN-RUN-HIT – any combination of HIT and RUN that matches the number of pads on the field.
4. The DB must run through the pads, swimming or sidestepping each pad on a ‘RUN’ and tackling the pad on ‘HIT’
example: 3 pads, coach calls out RUN-RUN-HIT: the player could roll around the 1st pad, swim past the 2nd, and tackle the 3rd.
This is especially fun if you have 6 or 9 pads. Have 2 or 3 DB’s all line up against their own set of pads, and when the football coach calls the command, each player executes it. See which DB can get through all pads the fastest. Also fun to substitute one of the ‘RUN’ pads with a lineman.
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