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Whip
Route4-8 ydaka Whip-In
Receiver fakes outward (like a quick out) for 3-5 yards, then SHARPLY whips back inside on a slant angle. Misdirection — beats man when defender bites on the out fake. The 'whip' refers to the inside snap-back, finishing toward the QB.
Demo rendered on @X (outside WR) at 6yd depth. Only the route runner and the QB are shown so the break stays the focus; the same route family scales to any depth a play calls for, and concepts that use this route may set a different depth.
How to run it
sell the out, snap back inside.
Reading it by coverage
How to run the whip against what the defense shows.
- Cover 0:
- vs blitz man — the out-fake and whip-back beats tight leverage; look fast inside.
- Cover 1:
- vs man — sell the out hard, then whip back across his face to the inside.
- Man:
- misdirection man-beater — commit the defender outside, then snap back in.
- Zone:
- vs zone the whip settles inside the underneath defenders — sit and face the QB.