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Here is a drill to try for [tag]youth football coaching[/tag].   This is a good [tag]football drill[/tag] 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 [tag]football coach[/tag] 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’Youth Football Coaching

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 [tag]football[/tag] 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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