Teaching A Receiver Defensive Coverage & YAC
It’s 7on7 football season so you won’t hear quite as much about YAC as you will in the fall. Yards After Catch is the term used to describe what a receiver does or doesn’t do with the ball after they catch it.
YAC or Yards After Catch is a valid way to evaluate the effectiveness of a receiver. Sometimes when people invoke the word, they think it’s completely a result of the player’s talent. That is not accurate. If you are a coach, don’t excuse yourself from coaching and creating YAC.
When a receiver comes to the line of scrimmage there are always pre-snap and post snap keys to reveal important things about the coverage. The really good receivers use this knowledge to take their game to a higher level. It’s like having the answers to the test before you take it. Yards after catch are the result.
If your receivers are just running routes then you are not completely coaching it . We are not even talking about route adjustments. We are talking about teaching a receiver how to run themselves open by understanding coverage. It sounds like it’s very complicated. but it’s far from it. Give your receivers simple reads just like any other football position would have.
Yards after catch is one of those areas that can improved with little coaching points. Take a look at this short video to get a few tips on how to increase your YAC during this 7on7 season and this fall when the pads go on.
