In this three-part series, APC’s Bob Fitch looks back at the film to understand how the Green Bay Packers utilized the running game in 2017 with three different running backs and Aaron Rodgers unavailable. Part two looks at the zone read.
Brett Hundley has always been a decent runner for a quarterback. UCLA took full advantage of that, and the Green Bay Packers eventually did as well in 2017, implementing the zone read into their gameplan.
The most basic zone read play really simplifies the reads a quarterback has to make: find the end man on the line of scirmmage and read his movement.