


5 Roster Positions for the Run and Shoot.The success of Houston's run and shoot offense and the inability of its record setting quarterbacks to translate their success into the NFL lead to the label of being a " system quarterback".

Quarterbacks Ware and Klingler were both drafted in the NFL first round. The following two seasons Houston quarterback David Klingler continued the success of the run and shoot throwing for 9,430 yards and 91 touchdowns, including 716 yards and 11 touchdown passes in a single game which were all records. The Cougars were disallowed from having its football games televised or playing in a Bowl Game that season due to NCAA sanctions imposed some years earlier. If repeated pass plays work, the defense is not as prepared for running plays running the ball between the offensive tackles, or just off-tackle, is now possible and more likely to succeed.Īt the Collegiate level, the 1989 Houston Cougars football team demonstrated the scoring potential of the run and shoot offense as quarterback Andre Ware set 26 NCAA records and won the Heisman Trophy while the #14 ranked Cougars finished the season 9-2. The frequent passing plays run out of this formation tend to spread out the defense's players. The types of running backs used varied from smaller backs who could catch passes to big, bruising running backs who could run with power. Many of the National Football League teams that used the Run & Shoot in the early 1990s used true wide receivers in all four receiving positions. Ricky Sanders and Richard Johnson of the USFL's Houston Gamblers) lined up just outside and behind the two offensive tackles. In the purest form of the offense, the proper complement would consist of two wide receivers lined up on the outside edges of the formation and two " slotbacks" (running backs who are capable of catching the ball as well as running with it, e.g. The quarterback, as a result, also has to read and react to the defense's coverages in a more improvised manner than with other offensive systems.
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The basic idea behind the Run & Shoot is a flexible offense that adjusts "on the fly," as the receivers are free to adjust their routes as they are running them in response to the defensive coverage employed.

This system makes extensive use of receiver motion (having a receiver suddenly change position by running left or right, parallel to the line of scrimmage, just before the ball is snapped), both to create advantageous mismatches with the opposing defensive players and to help reveal what coverage the defense is using. The Run & Shoot system uses a formation consisting of one running back and between two and four wide receivers. It was conceived by former Middletown, Ohio, High School football coach Glenn "Tiger" Ellison and refined and popularized by former Portland State Offensive Coordinator Darell "Mouse" Davis. The run and shoot offense is an offensive system for American football which emphasizes receiver motion and on-the-fly adjustments of receivers' routes in response to different defenses. This article may require cleanup to meet American Football Database's quality standards.
