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title: "Free Football IQ Test & Quiz: Can You Read a Defense?"
description: "A free football IQ test and quiz built from real coverages and route diagrams, with tackle and flag football versions. Get your score and the right read."
url: https://www.crucibletech.com/football-iq-test/
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Free quiz

# Football IQ Test

How well do you read the game? Name the coverage from the diagram, pick the right throw, and see the answer and the reason after every question. There is a tackle version and a flag football version.

Question 1 of 15

![Quiz diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/coverages/cover-3.webp)

## Which coverage is this?

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## What the Test Checks

Most football IQ quizzes are trivia. This one is about what a quarterback has to see: how many defenders are deep, whether it is man or zone, which defender a concept is built to stress, and where the ball goes once that defender commits.

The diagrams are the same ones Crucible uses in its simulator. Every question shows you the tell to look for, so a wrong answer still teaches you something.

## Getting Better at It

Reading a diagram is easier than reading a defense moving at you. The fastest way to close that gap is reps: see the coverage, make the throw, find out right away if you were right. That is what the simulator is for.

## Common Questions

### How long is the football IQ test?

The tackle version has 15 questions and the flag version 9. Most people finish in five to ten minutes.

### Is the football IQ test the same as the NFL quarterback test?

No. Teams give draft prospects their own tests, like the S2 Cognition test. This one checks football knowledge: coverages, routes and reads.

### Is it free?

Yes. There is no sign-up and nothing is saved anywhere except your own browser.

## Keep Going

- [How to read a defense as a quarterback](https://www.crucibletech.com/learn/how-to-read-defenses/)
- [Guess the coverage (daily game)](https://www.crucibletech.com/guess-the-coverage/)
- [Quarterback reads quiz](https://www.crucibletech.com/qb-reads-quiz/)
- [Every coverage, explained](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/coverages/)

Reading It Is the Hard Part
Knowing what a coverage looks like on paper is step one. Crucible puts you at quarterback against it, rep after rep, until the read is automatic.
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