Watch as Coach Dennis Simmons explains and shows practice clips of the Dig Route. In the first example, the receiver tricks the defender into running, then quickly throws him off balance by staying low and crossing in front of him. In the second clip the receiver is taking an outside release to make it look like a vertical route and then uses the outside hand to clear the defender to the inside.
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