The 17 QB Keep Play is a great play that offers deception and it also allows you to utilize a mobile QB. This is a play that I saw when I was scouting a team for a friend of mine. This play is set up by running the ISO play with the wing-back inverting. When the team ran the QB keep of off the ISO, they would invert the wing which serves as a key breaker that tricked the defense. This play is very easy to install and it works very well on the youth football level.
17 Iso Play out of the Wing T Formation
Center: Block head up nose guard.
Right Guard: Inside-Over-Free.
Right Tackle: Base defensive tackle.
Left Guard: Inside-Over-Free.
Left Tackle: Base defensive tackle, big on big.
Tight-end: Base block defensive end, block him out, maintain inside leverage.
Slot (4): Stalk defender covering him.
Split-end: Stalk block the cornerback.
Left Wingback (4): Invert, block the outside linebacker (ISO).
Fullback (2): Take handoff at the 5 hole, cut off of wing-back’s ISO block.
Quarterback: Take snap, handoff to the the (2), carry out fake.
17 QB Keep Play out of the Wing T Formation
Center: Block head up nose guard.
Right Guard: Inside-Over-Free.
Right Tackle: Base defensive tackle.
Left Guard: Inside-Over-Free.
Left Tackle: Base defensive tackle.
Tight-end: Base defensive end.
Slot(4): Block linebacker.
Split-end: Stalk cornerback or run off (vs. press man coverage).
Left Wing-back (3): Invert, block outside linebacker. You could also have him lead block and take the cornerback or even seal the defensive end.
Fullback (2): Fake ISO handoff, carry out fake.
Quarterback: Fake handoff to the fullback, then run outside.
Coaching Points
- Use the ISO play to set up the QB keep play. Once you notice the defense selling out to stop the ISO, call the QB keep play.
- This is a great way to take advantage of undisciplined CBs and DEs.
- A good fake between the QB and the (2) needs to be executed. The (2) really has to sell this fake.
(See Also) Single Back Formation Iso Play