Packers Film Room: Breaking down the deep dig

The Green Bay Packers relied on a simple yet effective passing design in 2024: their deep dig/deep out passing concept. The concept was called only a handful of times, but it created explosive pass plays for the offense in high leverage situations. The play was either run from under center with play action and mirrored receiver formations or was run out of shotgun on third downs and no play action.

I can’t find the install non-play action play art so here is the concept above in play action. The play action concept usually run out of 12 personnel. The deep out is seven step drop timing with the dig route on the backside as the alert.

Since it’s a deep-drop play-action concept, they’ll use…