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2 Drills To Improve Hands Without A QB

2 Drills To Improve Your Hands without a QB are the following: stand with your back up against a wall and you need two tennis balls. Boun...

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Grant Caraway

2 days ago
1 min

2 Tips For WR Hand Combat

2 Ways you can improve your hand combat off the line vs a press DB is by doing the following: have a plan with your hands and attack a DB...

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Grant Caraway

3 days ago
1 min

2 WR Catching Drills Over The Shoulder

The first drill you can do is have a QB stand behind you and you are going to have your back to him. While running your hands in place yo...

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Grant Caraway

4 days ago
1 min

What QBs Can Do In The Gym

In the gym QBs when it comes to upper body QBs need to be careful. In high school it is tough to do your own thing when your coach puts t...

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Grant Caraway

5 days ago
1 min

2 Things WRs Can Do In The Gym

2 Things WRs can work on in the gym are the following: power cleans and box jumps. Let me explain. The reason I feel power cleans are imp...

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Grant Caraway

6 days ago
1 min

2 Tips To Improve Your Arm Strength

2 Tips For QBs to improve their arm strength is the following: increase your ground force production and your torque. Obviously their are...

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Grant Caraway

Sep 12
1 min

2 Tips To Get Faster Off The Line

2 Tips To Get Faster off the line would be your stance and weight distribution. If you have about 70-80% of your weight in your front foo...

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Grant Caraway

Sep 10
1 min

Diving Catch Drill

A drill to work on diving catches is the following: if you have a padded surface like maybe a pull out bed or one of those pads that high...

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Grant Caraway

Sep 9
2 min

2 Essential QB Drills

2 QB drills that are essential for you to do are the following: you need to work on your back stroke with this sequence drill. Start with...

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Grant Caraway

Sep 8
1 min

2 Things Every QB Must Learn

In today’s game I think every QB must learn how to throw off platform and how to buy time in the pocket. The two go hand in hand. But als...

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Grant Caraway

Sep 7
1 min

2 Drills To Improve Contested Catches

2 drills to get better at contested catches are the following; Have someone stand by you and just play regular catch but have the person w...

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Grant Caraway

Sep 3
1 min

2 Tips To Win Jump Balls

2 Things every WR can do in 50/50 jump ball situations, no matter what size you are, is go up with strong hands and when you secure the c...

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Grant Caraway

Sep 2
1 min

How QBs Can Improve Their Vision

How QBs can improve their vision is by creating windows for themselves. I get this question asked a lot and my answer will always be the ...

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Grant Caraway

Sep 1
1 min

2 WR Hand Technique Tips

WRs when they are working their hand technique need to be attacking the points of control on a DB and they need to execute their plan. Th...

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Grant Caraway

Aug 31
2 min

3 Tips For WRs Against Press

3 things WRs need to keep in mind when they are against press coverage is the following: don’t try to do too much, make sure your hands a...

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Grant Caraway

Aug 29
1 min

3 Tips For WRs To Beat Zone Coverage

How WRs Can Beat Zone Coverage is by doing the following 3 things: you want to step on the DBs toes, attack his weak hip and get in his b...

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Grant Caraway

Aug 28
1 min

2 Tips For QBs To Make Faster Reads

How QBs can make faster reads is by tying your feet to your eyes. If you are able to go through progressions in the pocket tying your fee...

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Grant Caraway

Aug 27
1 min

When To Change Tempo Off The Line

WRs should change their tempo when they feel a DB has caught onto their speed, let me explain. For a quarter or maybe even 3 quarters of ...

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Grant Caraway

Aug 26
1 min

Best Advice For Short QBs

What Short QBs need to work on is there ability to move in the pocket and create throwing windows for themselves. That’s the biggest misc...

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2 Tips To Be More Explosive Off The Line

Grant Caraway

Aug 25
1 min

2 Tips To Be More Explosive Off The Line

2 tips to be more explosive off of the line are the following: you need to work explosive release drills with some resistance and focus o...

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