Here you'll find linebacker football drills for football teams and players of all ages. They are categorized to the left by beginner, intermediate and advanced drill levels. These linebacker drills will improve field awareness, tackling skills and conditioning for you or your football team's linebackers. 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. Lawrence Timmons: Side Shuffle Drill
    7 comments 19137 views
    By: adidas

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

  2. Pursuit Drill
    9 comments 11515 views

    Three linebackers work on reaction time and pursuit in this drill. A coach and running back practice handoffs while lineba...

  3. Adam Carriker: Hit-And-Go Drill
    15 comments 19709 views
    By: adidas

    Adam Carriker: Hit-And-Go Drill

  4. Donnie Edwards: Improve Instincts for INTs
    7 comments 4635 views
    By: adidas

    Pro football's Donnie Edwards teaches how defensive backs can develop better instincts to intercept the football and cause...

  5. Will Witherspoon: 4 Corner Cone Drill
    12 comments 14597 views
    By: adidas

    Will Witherspoon: 4 Corner Cone Drill

  6. Bull in the Ring (removed)
    43 comments 22382 views

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

  7. Will Witherspoon: Hip Drill
    1 comment 6838 views
    By: adidas

    Will Witherspoon: Hip Drill

  8. Cut and Run For Defensive Players
    17 comments 12241 views

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

  9. Performance Agility Drill
    25 comments 12045 views

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

  10. Donnie Edwards: Taking on Blockers
    25 comments 12948 views
    By: adidas

    One of the most important defensive football skills to learn is how to avoid offensive blockers. The National Football Le...