What the Running Back Does After Pitch in Football

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Sean Hobson, for Expert Village. What we want to talk about now is when running an effective option play out of the I formation. The running back is an important part in how he finishes out this play. Let's fake it to the fullback and run in our option play coming down the line with our quarterback (video demo). The quarterback will make the read. If this guy is coming up to try to stop our quarterback because he's very fast and picking up a lot of yardage, it's great for our running back. Now this guy is totally sold out to the quarterback. So, the quarterback wants to pitch it to the running back. Here's the important part. Once this running back gets the ball he has to catch it and instantly be in a low stance and be ready to explode. We don't want this guy running to the sidelines. We want him to cut it up the field as quickly as possible. Hopefully, our wide receiver is holding off our defensive back up the field and this guy can come up. Once he makes the cut up the hole he's going to start reading where the best direction is for him to run. The main thing is on all option plays is if you take the ball wide you're not going gain anything, you'll probably lose yardage. But, if that running back is good at catching the ball and getting it straight up the field you could pick up a big gain off this option play."