Offensive Line Drills for the Inside Zone

by: Eric Driskell
Offensive Line Coach, Blue Valley HS (KS)
© July 2008

Inside zone blocking is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I always look to see if someone is talking on zone at a clinic or if there is an article in AFM because I don’t have all the answers and I love stealing ideas. I have played in or been coaching in a zone scheme for the past 18 years. At Blue Valley High School, we are an inside zone running team. In the past we were a single back ace and now we have evolved to the pistol formation. Even though we are different in the backfield, we still block inside zone the same way. Zone read makes up more than half of our running game, so it is something that we work on each day.

Although we are a zone team, I got some of these drills from various styles of offensive schemes and tweaked them to match our technique and scheme. These are some drills that I use as much as possib....The full article can only be seen by subscribers.
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