Youth Football Coaches Association - Defensive Line Drills

Defensive Line Drills

Good coaches will find a variety of ways to teach their players techniques. Using different drills each day or week will keep your practices fresh and exciting, for you, your coaches and your players.

Please submit your favorite defensive line drill to us. Drills can be submitted through the form on this site, or you can email your drill. Any format (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, JPG, Playmaker Pro, etc.) is acceptable. Everyone that submits a drill will be given full credit.

Click here for a template form to submit your drill.

Feel free to access this FREE Drill Library at any time. Don't hesitate to ask us any questions that you might have, or share ways that you modified drills for your practices.

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3 Pass Rush Scenarios For Your Defensive Linemen
by Football Tutorials

Ring Drills- These can be made with PVC piping, hula hoops or painted on the fields

Read Drill - Teach the DL to react quickly to the movement of the OL

Control Read & React Drill - Early recgonition of OL, decrease reaction time after contact

Enhance this drill with a tackling dummy or strip drill at the end.

AIR BALL PURSUIT DRILL- train defensive linemen to make a second effort on passes thrown downfield and to improve reaction to the screen pass- SEE ANIMATED DRILL BELOW FROM www.animatedplaybook.com