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    WR Stretching Routine
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 22, 2020
    • 1 min

    WR Stretching Routine

    Standing Touch Your Toes 30 second hold Standing Pull Quad (pull bottom of foot) 30 second hold on each leg Standing knee hug 30 second h...
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    2 QB Throwing Tips
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 21, 2020
    • 1 min

    2 QB Throwing Tips

    2 tips for QBs when it comes down to throwing mechanics Is the following: dont lift the ball and don’t be tense with your shoulders. You ...
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    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 19, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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    2 Tips For WR Hand Combat
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 18, 2020
    • 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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    2 WR Catching Drills Over The Shoulder
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 17, 2020
    • 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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    What QBs Can Do In The Gym
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 16, 2020
    • 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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    2 Things WRs Can Do In The Gym
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 15, 2020
    • 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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    2 Tips To Improve Your Arm Strength
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 14, 2020
    • 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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    2 Tips To Get Faster Off The Line
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 12, 2020
    • 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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    Diving Catch Drill
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 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, 2020
    • 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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    2 Things Every QB Must Learn
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 8, 2020
    • 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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    2 Drills To Improve Contested Catches
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 7, 2020
    • 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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    2 Tips To Win Jump Balls
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 3, 2020
    • 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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    How QBs Can Improve Their Vision
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 2, 2020
    • 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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    2 WR Hand Technique Tips
    Grant Caraway
    • Sep 1, 2020
    • 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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    3 Tips For WRs Against Press
    Grant Caraway
    • Aug 31, 2020
    • 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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    3 Tips For WRs To Beat Zone Coverage
    Grant Caraway
    • Aug 29, 2020
    • 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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    2 Tips For QBs To Make Faster Reads
    Grant Caraway
    • Aug 28, 2020
    • 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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    When To Change Tempo Off The Line
    Grant Caraway
    • Aug 27, 2020
    • 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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