The Wing-T is often thought of as a downhill, between-the-tackles run offense, but that doesn’t mean that speed and quickness aren’t important for the running back isn’t important.
In fact, speed and misdirection can create opportunities for huge plays, even if the hole opened up by the offensive line isn’t very big.
That’s why so many Wing-T coaches love the trap play, and that’s what we’re talking about in today’s email.
This is taken directly from our newest release: The Complete Wing-T Playbook.
64/66 Guard Trap
One of the most important keys to success when running this play is that the fullback MUST stay downhill and cannot get width when the guard kicks out on the trap block. The coaching point is to stay TIGHT to the down block. No juking back and forth, get straight downhill and this play can open up much faster than you may think.
The guard on the trap pull is coached up to “think like a down block”. In other words, the trap is not a flat pull but it should happen on the OTHER SIDE of the line of scrimmage. We don’t want to take a bad angle and let that defensive lineman get inside of our block and spill it. We want to take the initiative and attack him where he is, even if he is aggressively getting up the field.
The quarterback will signal for the wingback to come in jet motion, take the snap, reverse out and hand off to the fullback on the trap, before continuing on the waggle rollout. This combination of backfield actions to both sides should freeze the linebackers and give the offensive line time to get to their assigned blocks.
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