hey what's up everyone this is morey croson from the performance lab of california and
we have another new breakdown for you today on DeAndre Hopkins DeAndre Hopkins is one of the
best receivers in the NFL overall really big guy I mean has excellent hands a great road running
just great overall receiver and so what we wanted to do today is just go through some route running
and really the key thing or what we're gonna go is three key tips to take away from for
route running and and really pertaining to what Dioner Hopkin does but I think there's a lot of
guys that do some of these similar things and so you could take it away and be able to implement
it as a receiver you know we're not only about you know just the speed or just the throw or
just see Julie really were about being able to teach good quality movement and what does good
quality movement look like and I think your honor Hopkins is an excellent example of what it should
look like so without further ado we'll go ahead and go into the breakdown so the the big thing I
would say here so this is just a regular slant right so you can see him just taking off here
he has a really low overall position and what stands out to me is that you could tell as he's
coming forward he's putting a big emphasis on driving his hips forward hip extension is what
it's called so he's really trying to get his hips through see how you he goes and he like
lifts up and lifts through those hips okay so he's on his second step as a three steps plan
and you can see how his hips are continuing to come through continuing to come through and as
he does that he gets more and more height in his and his run or in his Sprinter in his route okay
so he's getting more and more height and then he sinks down and he allows himself to really
land on the inside part of the foot that's one big thing but he and he sinks down that's fine
a little bit but not very much really what he does is he allows his spine to take on a lot
of the ability to to decelerate okay so he goes and he hits it boom and then his fun comes down
a lot he has a slight knee bend to so he goes out he has that foot he touches on the outside
by the foot legs pretty stark straight during the initial contact then the weight transfers
of the outside part of the foot as that happens the spine goes down and then the knee bends to be
able to fully decelerate while here and then also get himself set up for a good solid acceleration
as he pushes off okay so notice this is that this is key one which is to be able to lower the spine
into the break okay so as he's going he's lowering the spine into the break okay you also see this
stuff without he's bending his knees and landing on the inside part the foot those are those are
important as well but really being able to connect with being able to lower the spine as against to
the break is something that is critical critical in terms of route running that he does that's very
very unique and something that you can utilize in order to improve your overall routes all right
this one's gonna be an out route supply step out route okay so one two notice those hips
are getting through he's raising up that spine three he's really trying to be as well you know
how even his feet are look at that was toes are facing straight ahead boom boom keeping those
those feet facing straight ahead his elbows are a little bit off the side as he's going but those
feet are straight ahead now notice on this step so one two three four notice how on that step so
it's actually gonna end up being a six step out but 10-yard out and six steps so notice how he's
going and every single one of these these steps are very very straight very very in line but then
right before he actually gets his cut notice how he crosses over that foot right so he has
this step that that fourth step fifth step is a crossover step he's still you know human his spine
up he raises up the spine a little bit to allow the crossover step but what that does is now makes
it so he can you can get his hips to start moving this way a little bit more so now when he goes and
he hits it he could really hit it hard there do the same type of thing laying on the inside part
of the foot keep the leg straight as he hits boom he bends any hard and he accelerates down through
the spine but look at how nice this looks when you actually watch it in full speed so it looks very
very fast and very very fluid and go and do it one more time right what he just did there is he
made it so he took that crossover step and then after that crossover step he's able to boom sit
down hard and then get into the some of those same things that were we took off him now and make sure
when you guys touch down here boom you're able to push off with a lot of force so that will help
you really get around excellent route from that perspective or from I mean such a big guy you
know he's just he's able to run so fluidly it's it's really amazing so last part of it okay last
part of your your key so that was key number two J's when you want to be be able to go full speed
and get more of those hard turns those stiff turns that 10-yard outward it's like a hard break being
able to get that night crossover step in which will help you and really maximizing that that
ability to make a hard hard break okay and get those hips moving to the side a little bit and and
be able to land on the inside part of the foot leg pretty straight and then drop that spine bend the
knee those are also big things okay so what we did here is we're looking at where his overall time on
the ground is right so let's go on this step here so he hits the ground at about 7 7 o 73-70 or 7 0
he's off the ground at about probably 83 84 let's go here for so that's that's point one for Dad
and boom he hits the ground here at seventy three point nine zero and he's off the ground probably
by seventy three you're sorry 74 oh six okay so point one six so he only added 0.02 seconds
on the time during a cut right so he'd cut right there boom okay then he's coming across here he's
running full speed full speed full speed boom same thing notice how he's he's hitting it and
that leg straight again boom bends Annie and then brings the spine with them okay he hits the ground
they're at let's say eleven eleven seventy five eleven those know a lot of numbers this was gonna
be the calculation for all the way 75 11 he's off the ground by probably about thirty three right so
that's about point two two today so but what the point of that is so point two to maybe somewhere
between point - OH and point two - it's what he's spending on that hard deceleration by the
way that's him cutting off one leg really selling the post and being able to stop there and go in a
completely different direction from full speed and only put token point two seconds usually his steps
are about point one to two point one three seconds at least during his route so I don't know what
it is top end speed but what that's telling us is that there's not it's only about a point oh eight
difference when he's going from one direction to the other so really being able to put a focus on
your ability to when you're cutting still be quick with that planning leg I think a lot of times what
at least what I see with with receivers when it comes to that acceleration deceleration I mean
particular the deceleration there's a lot of time spent on the ground right so when you're going to
hit that out rather try and hit that that move to the corner you go and you almost overextend
yourself you overextend your in front of you and it makes it so that foot just spends too much
time on the ground in comparison to your other steps right it all wants to be very rhythmic it
all wants to be very timing oriented so if you're going and you're running a lot of us run at about
point one one I would say then you don't want to end up having a point three oh break time right
then you added point nine to nine seconds before you got off the breaker sorry 0.40 right what's
done in I'm sorry point three L's right yeah yeah yeah so what are you still added to you
added point one one nine seconds so that's double more than double with what he would do in between
i'ma throw so you go from point 1 12.30 rather than going from point 1 2 1 3 to about point 2
2 or point two oh right either one then that's 0.08 to point 1 right either one of those is
better than that it's a lot more time and I see that right I see that with athletes is that you
guys end up spending just way too much time on the ground during your deceleration phase which
is negatively impact here and you're impacting your ability to to get through routes and really
be the best receiver you could be all right so I hope you guys like that I hope you guys got a lot
of information from that I know DeAndre Hopkins has a lot to offer here I would say that you guys
you know can just use this in better understanding the route running that last part is just obviously
getting that transition time faster right so Megan so when you're cutting that leg gets
off the ground faster so to read Paul those three steps one more time first one is being able to as
you're going and go through the cut you you when you hit the ground mainly so you're you're cutting
and you're allowing your spine to decel with that the the cut rather than bringing your spine down
and then trying to cut afterwards ok that's a lot of times with the habit is that you go and you try
to bring your spine down then you cut right then using the cut to then also bring down your spine
number two when you're trying to make those very very hard turns that's very very you know those
hard out routes those hard end or dig type routes may it and so you you cross that leg over to make
it so you can get those hips moving and be a little bit more quick around I think is a really
really good tip okay that's tip number two number three and you're getting in and out of your brakes
and more specifically really when you're getting out of those brakes you know make sure that you're
not spending too much time in your contact time so if you're calling you running that hard corner you
running that hard post you haven't be running that whatever a hard hard route okay you don't want to
end up spending you don't overextend yourself and make it so that foot spending too much time on
the ground compared to the rest of your steps everything wants to time out very very well
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