The Last Rep

Although playing both ways is very rare in college and professional football, coaches are often forced by need to utilize two-way athletes to increase their team’s odds of success. American Football Monthly recently sat down with six of the top college position coaches in the nation that have experience in working with two-way athletes. How do you prepare a two-way athlete in practice? “Usually at the high school level practice is divided into separate offensive and defensive periods, basically because many of the starters play both ways due to the limited resources available. In college, we have to find time to share.” – Larry Fedora, wide receivers, Florida “For depth purposes we have experimented with some athletes going both ways, but the athletes suffered because of the intangibles such as motion, sets, etc. – there is no substitution for reps. However the one thing we