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Wildcat formation is a formation for the offense in football in which the ball is snapped not to the quarterback but directly to a player of another position lined up at the quarterback position. (In most systems, this is a running back , but some playbooks have a wide receiver , fullback , or tight end taking the snap.)
Some attribute the modern origins of the "Wildcat" to Bill Snyder's Kansas State (whose sports teams are known as the "Wildcats") offense of the late ’90s and early 2000s, which featured a lot of zone read runs by the quarterback. Others attribute the origins to Hugh Wyatt, a Double Wing coach (See Double Wing discussion below).
The wildcat offense or single-wing was a "new" formation that allowed the Dolphins to utilize their two best offensive players, Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams, who both played running back. From that point on the Dolphins completed the greatest single-season turnaround in NFL history, going from a 1–15 in 2007 to 11–5.
Tebow finished his rookie season playing sparingly in six games as a back-up (primarily on plays involving the wild horse formation, which is Denver's variation of the wildcat formation) before starting the last three games of the Broncos' season. He passed for a total of 654 yards, five touchdowns and three interceptions.
Lining up in the "wildcat" formation, the Miami Dolphins, borrowing from Gus Malzahn's college spread offense, “direct snap” the ball to their running back, Ronnie Brown, [10] who was then able to read the defense, and either pass or keep the ball himself. The spread offense is generally not used as a team's primary offense in the NFL.
A steady beat echoes from the Millbrook High’s sideline once the Wildcats’ offense takes the field. Angel Gomez grabs a football, tees it up with a kicker stand and boots the ball into a ...
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Halfback Ronnie Brown throwing out of the Wildcat formation. On rare occasions, and more often in the early days of the sport, a halfback is asked to throw the ball when executing a halfback option. [14] [15] This play is generally referred to as a halfback pass, regardless if the player throwing the football is a tailback or fullback. This ...