Jake Spavital - Pass Game Choice Routes

by Texas High School Coaches Association

Description

Baylor Offensive Coordinator Jake Spavital breaks down one of the most dangerous weapons in football, the choice route, and shows how it fits into Baylor’s explosive offensive philosophy.

In this clinic, you’ll learn:

How to teach choice route fundamentals for QBs and WRs.
The keys to attacking leverage and winning one-on-ones.
How to integrate RPOs and tempo into your passing game.
Advanced variations like backside choice, double choice, inside fade, and box fade.
Coaching points for discipline, timing, and finishing routes.

Coach Spavital also shares how Baylor uses tempo, freedom, and physicality to create explosive plays while keeping defenses off balance.

Whether you coach at the high school or college level, this course gives you the tools to teach smarter reads, maximize efficiency, and generate big plays through the air.

Take your passing game to the next level, enroll today, and learn from one of the top offensive minds in football.

Lessons

1 Pass Game Choice Routes 2 Preview - Choice Routes 2:29 3 Baylor Offense & Offensive Philosophy 2:09 4 Choice Routes 1:22 5 Backside Choice 4:48 6 Tempo, RPO Reads & Timing 2:40 7 GO 6:49 8 Glance 2:29 9 Dictating Defense with Tempo and RPO Reads 1:48 10 Attacking Leverage with Precision 3:22 11 Timing, Risk, and Quarterback-Receiver Discipline 6:46 12 Front Side & Double Choice 1:03 13 Shutdown: Run Game Balance & One-on-One Opportunities 1:59 14 3 over 2 Coverage 1:33 15 Choice Routes, Shutdown Reads & RPO Adjustments 2:18 16 Inside Fade 5:02 17 Box Fade, Double Choice & QB Decision-Making 1:19

The Coach

Texas High School Coaches Association

HELPING COACHES TO HELP KIDS - Since 1930

Spavital is widely considered one of the best offensive minds in college football and brings a bevy of experience to Waco, including four years as the head coach at Texas State. He has also worked as the OC/QB coach at West Virginia (2017-18; 2010-11), Cal (2016) and Texas A&M (2013-15). He got his start in coaching at Tulsa in 2008, also working graduate assistant stints at Houston (2009) and Oklahoma State (2010).

As an offensive coordinator, Spavital has led six top-20 offenses and helped his squad earn a spot in the AP Top 25 poll in seven different seasons.

Spavital has recruited and worked with several elite college and future NFL quarterbacks, including Will Grier (West Virginia), Case Keenum (Houston), Johnny Manziel (Texas A&M), Kyler Murray (Texas A&M), Geno Smith (West Virginia), Davis Webb (California) and Brandon Weeden (Oklahoma State). Murray was the first overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals, while Weeden and Manziel were each selected in the first round by the Cleveland Browns in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Smith was a second-round choice of the New York Jets in 2013.