Youth Football Coaching Drills – Four Corner Pizza
One of the youth football coaching drills we run for our 95 pounder squad is a variation of a school yard game. This teaches angle of pursuit, proper tackling, agility for the runners.
Football Drills
Football Defensive Drills – The Tackle Tunnel
One of the team's favorite football defensive drills is the "Tackle Tunnel". We run the drill until each player has played each role at least 2x.
Football Practice Drills – Tackling Drill and Fumble Recovery
These football practice drills are for tackling and another for fumble recovery. Your younger players enjoy the tackling drill because of the contact and it is safe because they are hitting dummies.
Football Training Drills – Cumulative Route Running Drill
I have formulated some new football training drills. This drill for the receivers is for our individual period. What it encompasses is the routes that we run most frequently--our bead and butter. These are the ones we want to run with our closed and be perfect at at. I call it "Cumulative Route Running Drill" or CRD for short.
Line Backer Football Drills – Position vs. Position Drill
These are line backer football drills which I have used in several practices. The first one is a position vs. position drill which works with wide receiver vs. defensive back and running back vs linebacker. The other is for hand eye/reaction.
Football Defensive Drills – Bear Crawl Drill
Briefly my 7-8 yr. olds were having a difficult time blocking and getting off the line defensively. Why? They were playing too "high". We came up with these football defensive drills to address this.
Running Back Football Drills – Balancing Box Drill
This is one of my favorite running back football drills that I use with my underneath zone coverage. It is a balancing box drill. It works simply like this:
Youth Football Coaching Drills – Read & React Drill
I do have some success stories for youth football coaching drills. This is one drill we do that keeps everything fun for practice. It seems to have a good response from the kids.
Football Practice Plans – Circle of Life & Tulsa Drill
During our spring practices, right after our initial stretching/warm-up period at the beginning of practice we have a 5 minute period we call the "Circle of Life" that we got from watching the Florida Gator football practices.
Youth Football Drills – Statue of Liberty
While I was coaching the little guys, kids 9-10 years old, and I found that mixing teaching with a game is a good way to end your football practice. Of all the youth football drills we did, one of them the kids seemed to enjoy we called the Statue of Liberty.
Football Defensive Drills – Read, React, Pursuit
These are good football defensive drills to work on reading and reacting while at the same time being good conditioning drills for all players.
Football Practice Drills – The Scout Run & Elbows In
Try these two football practice drills for a change in routine. The first one works well with your younger players and the next tip is for any age--time tested and effective!
Football Defensive Drills – Drills for Defensive Ends
I have two favorite football defensive drills that I use often at practice. They are fast paced, quick to execute and very effective.
Conditioning Drills for Football – Backpedal Drill
This is a drill that I initially used for my secondary team but transitioned for use as conditioning drills for football for all the teams.
Line Backer Football Drills – The Gauntlet
One of the line backer football drills drills I love to do is the Gauntlet.
Football Training Drills – Soccer Ideas for Football Practice
I came up with these football training drills from my years of experience coaching football and soccer. I am embarrassed when I see a youth football team practicing near a youth soccer team.
Catching Drills for Football – How to Catch a Poor Pass
My assistant coaches and I made the observation that especially young players (10 to 14 year old guys) have real big problems with catching footballs if the throw is not the best one. We came up with these catching drills for football.
Coaching Football – Hand Off Drill
As you are coaching football you are always searching for good general practice drills for any size team. Here is a great hand off drill that will allow 1 coach to keep 9 to 25 players busy!