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 19352 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. Donnie Edwards: Improve Instincts for INTs
    7 comments 4695 views
    By: adidas

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

  3. Bull in the Ring (removed)
    43 comments 22566 views

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

  4. Cut and Run For Defensive Players
    17 comments 12420 views

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

  5. Donnie Edwards: Taking on Blockers
    25 comments 13050 views
    By: adidas

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

  6. Lateral Movement Drill
    2 comments 13614 views

    A footwork drill for linebackers to play from sideline to sideline. This drill can be done with pads, helmets, cones or an...

  7. Lawrence Timmons: W Drill
    6 comments 10661 views
    By: adidas

    A great, simple drill for defensive backs and linebackers that works on backpedaling, lateral movement, planting and worki...

  8. Agility Drill #4
    2 comments 5484 views

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

  9. Linebacker Step Over Bag Drills
    2800 views

    This youth football drill brought to you by Youth Football Coaches Association helps linebackers perform various movements...

  10. Reggie Bush: Zig-Zag Football Drill
    18 comments 6740 views
    By: adidas

    Football players on both offense and defense should work on this basic footwork drill from their first practice in Pop War...