Mike Rader all by Mike Rader
Wide receiver coach
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These Perfect Route Drills are a great tool for teaching athletes how to run routes according to Wide Receiver Coach Mike Rader of Huntingdon College . Coach goes through several routes, inside and post stem, checking body position of the Wide Receiver at start and top of each route. Running these routes correctly ensures no wasted movement and little time for the defensive back to react! But, it doesn't do any good to run the route successfully and then drop the football! Coach wraps up this series with football catching skills and drills.
These Perfect Route Drills are a great tool for teaching athletes how to run routes. Always begin with a good stance and start to minimize false steps and get an explosive take off. Coach goes through the Hitch, the Quick Out, and the Slant Routes checking body position at each point. Running these routes correctly ensures no wasted movement and little time for the defensive back to react!
Next up: running longer routes - both inside stem and post stem - the goal to get leverage on the Defensive Back. This is a skills and drills segment for wide receivers running the Curl Route. One of the keys to running these routes successfully is repetition - committing them to muscle memory - so when the action is full speed, the wide receiver is wide open!
These are wide-open routes with hard sticks and fast turns. The concept is the same - mess with the Defensive Back, then head for the football!
This Post Route on the Inside Stem has the Wide Receiver putting a Double Move on the Defensive Back to create separation. In the Go Route the Wide receiver is running right at the Defensive Back and then it Stick and Stack! Now the DB is in chance mode and the race is on!
It doesn't do any good to run a route successfully and then drop the football. Ball catching skills are the focus here. See the seams and secure the ball. These football catching drills will help Wide Receivers make the play!
