Press Man Explained – How to Exit the Line of Scrimmage

Check out the video at the bottom of this page. It’s from one of my sessions during this past summer with Miami Dolphins DB Deshon Elliott, Pittsburgh Steelers seventh round pick Cory Trice and college football player Jaylen Herbert. In the video,  we are doing a Press man foot work drill where we are working on our kick slide to widen the wide receiver.

In addition to widening the receiver, we are working on how to progress up the field with the wide receiver to maintain our advantage. Some of the audio will be difficult to hear because there is music playing.  However, there are great nuggets that can be heard in the video.

In essence, I am explaining to the athletes how they should picture the receiver as an intruder trying to get into their house. When they are aligned in front of the receiver they are acting as themselves behind the front door. The receiver will work to find a way to enter their house. So if they are at the front door, he will slide outside of the door to try and enter a side window. If you slide with him, he will try the next window. At a certain point he will get to the side of your house. To safeguard your house you should stay in it and keep him out of it. Don’t slide so hard that you end up outside of your house with the intruder and give him the opportunity to get inside of your house while you’re outside of it.

Essentially move the receiver away from your front door and side windows and put him on the outside of your house. Keep him there as he continues to try and move around the perimeter of your house. You do this by maintaining the proper relationship with him by staying inside or outside of him, depending on his release and where your help is. What a DB should not do is move into the middle of the wide receiver or too hard outside or inside of him, allowing him to redirect against your leverage and have access to a part of the field that you don’t want him to go to.

Enjoy the video and feel free to send any questions, or comments that you have about it to me at cwilson@alleyesdbcamp.com – thank you for being a member.

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Chad Wilson is the founder of All Eyes DB Camp and a former standout defensive back for the Miami Hurricanes. After an elite collegiate career, Wilson spent a season with the Seattle Seahawks before transitioning into coaching. A 3-time Florida state champion defensive coordinator, he has spent over 20 years developing the "All Eyes" blueprint that has produced NFL All-Pros and stars like Xavien Howard, Patrick Surtain II, Tyson Campbell, Minkah Fitzpatrick and more. His coaching system is proven at the highest levels—his own sons, Quincy and Marco Wilson, both excelled as starters in the SEC before being drafted into the NFL.

Chad is the author of "101 DB Tips"—The Ultimate DB Reference Guide. You can find more information on the manual and how to order your copy in the sidebar and footer of this page.

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