2093518.8 centimetres, 22895 yards, 20.9 kilometres was the length of receiving yards acquired buy greatest receiver of all time Jerry Rice. This all-star had been playing in the nfl for 20 years. those twenty years took plenty of leading up to with practice and repetition. Those reps would be working his catching, route running and his mental game. in this paper i will be covering all three of these aspects of footballs catching game. Catching the ball has always been the same since the invention of football. Proper form of catching for your hands would be forming a triangle with your thumbs and indexes leaving about an inch of space between both. this tactic is only used if the ball is coming to the upper part of your body but if the ball is coming lower, you would touch your pinkies together while having your palms facing the ball and your fingers towards the ground. most crucial step to this all is to look the ball into your hands. you will have troubles along the road if you don't get a habit of this due to the fact that you can lose track of the ball. There are four main routes that coaches like there wide receivers to run offently:

The slant: a slant is a 45 degree cut straight across the field with your hands up the entire time because the abll will be common hard and fast.
The Square-In: a square in is when you run a determined amoun of yards down the field straight(im going to use 7 as an example). So you would run seven yards down the file then cut perpendicularly across the field and catch the ball.
The post: For a post you would run a determined amount of yards down the field straight(again i will use 7). Once you ran seven yards you will the run towards the post usualy about a 45 degree angle from the straight 7 yards you just ran, then catch the ball.
The Fly: While running a fly you would run straight down the field looking back at about the 10 yard mark to adjust yourself to where the ball is goin and catch it.

Those four routes are use to gain all kinds of yardage. The slant and square in will get you short-medium yardage and