Here you'll find defensive line football drills for football teams and players of all ages. They are categorized to the left by beginner, intermediate and advanced drill levels. These defensive line drills will improve field awareness, tackling skills and conditioning for you or your football team’s defensive linemen. Check the drills out, share them with your teams and tell us what you think. We always welcome suggestions of football drills to add.

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  1. Swim Move: Defensive Lineman
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    Swim Move: Defensive Lineman

    By: Immersion Media

    Make sure you explode from your stance. Your left hand must clear the lineman's hands. Then your right hand "swims" over t...

  2. Offensive Lineman v Defensive Lineman: 3 v 1
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    Offensive Lineman v Defensive Lineman: 3 v 1

    By: Football-Tutorials.com

    Purpose: The purpose of this drill is to teach the proper set for an offensive lineman against defensive lineman lined-up...

  3. Lawrence Timmons: Side Shuffle Drill
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    Lawrence Timmons: Side Shuffle Drill

    By: adidas

    Side to side agility is crucial to a variety of positions in football. Here NFL football star Lawrence Timmons shows how ...

  4. Cut and Run For Defensive Players
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    Cut and Run For Defensive Players

    By: Coach Your Kids.com

    Alternate sprinting and then backpedaling between the cones and finish with a form tackle or second-level block.

  5. Adam Carriker: Hit-And-Go Drill
    12 comments 3465 views

    Adam Carriker: Hit-And-Go Drill

    By: adidas

    Adam Carriker: Hit-And-Go Drill

  6. Bull in the Ring (removed)
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    Bull in the Ring (removed)

    By: T.J. Marchetti

    Editor's Note: We have removed this drill from the library since many youth football leagues consider it dangerous to thei...

  7. Performance Agility Drill
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    Performance Agility Drill

    By: Coach Your Kids.com

    Sprint around arc and then pivot inside. Sprint to the next cone, hurdle center object, pivot inside. Sprint back, hurd...

  8. Adam Carriker: Defensive Line Form Drill
    9 comments 1764 views

    Adam Carriker: Defensive Line Form Drill

    By: adidas

    Adam Carriker: Defensive Line Form Drill

  9. Agility Drill #4
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    Agility Drill #4

    By: Coach Your Kids.com

    Drop Sprint, Head on a swivel Pivot and breakdown Shuffle (quick feet) Pivot, Drop Sprint, Head on a swivel

  10. Rip Move: Defensive Lineman
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    Rip Move: Defensive Lineman

    By: Immersion Media

    Make sure you explode from your stance. Your left hand must clear the lineman's hands, then your right hand should rip thr...