Cone drills for LB'ers?

A real good cone drill for LB's is the W drill. Both inside and outside LB's can use it to benifit both postions. The purpose is to get the LB's to quickly move their feet to either come up and fill the hole on a run play or back pedal into coverage on a pass. The drill is like this:



One player starts the drill by sprinting forward as if reading a run play. Admediately when he gets to te second cone he will gather his feet stay under control and back pedal to the 3rd coneonce to the 3rd cone the player again gathers his feet and sprints to the 4th cone and back perdals to the 5th cone to end the drill. The coaching point is to make sure the players stay low and keep their center of gravity. Also you want to make sure that no one slips, falls, gets out of control or knocks down a cone. This shows that the player is not under control and needs to concentrate more. Knock over a cone the 1st time and the player Starts the drill over. Knock it over a second time and do 50 push-ups. You'll either have under control LB's or strong as sh*t LB's out of control.