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. Donnie Edwards: Improve Instincts for INTs
    7 comments 627 views
    By: adidas

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

  2. Pursuit Drill
    6 comments 2023 views

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

  3. Lawrence Timmons: Side Shuffle Drill
    3 comments 2473 views
    By: adidas

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

  4. Shedding a Block
    6 comments 1759 views

    Start by synching your hips. Then attack the offensive player. Bench press your opponent away from your body. Then rip you...

  5. Cut and Run For Defensive Players
    10 comments 2011 views

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

  6. Lateral Movement Drill
    2 comments 2512 views

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

  7. Adam Carriker: Hit-And-Go Drill
    12 comments 3466 views
    By: adidas

    Adam Carriker: Hit-And-Go Drill

  8. Lawrence Timmons: Catching Passes
    3 comments 433 views
    By: adidas

    Working the wheel rout for linebackers falling out into coverage, concentrating on footwork and making a play for the ball.

  9. Bull in the Ring (removed)
    29 comments 4216 views

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

  10. Performance Agility Drill
    22 comments 3173 views

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