Screen and go route will be staple play for Texas OC Sterlin Gilbert|Texas Hot Topics|Team BattleGround|College BattleGround

An extensive series in the veer-and-shoot offense run by new Texas Longhorns offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert focuses on run-pass options that asks defenses to make difficult choices about resource allocation. One of those plays, a simple combination of a bubble screen with a running play like inside zone, has a complementary call — a bubble and go that gives the outside receiver a chance to beat his defender into the middle.

When Gilbert’s former team, the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, played the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman last year, Gilbert used this play in the shot zone — the area of the field between midfield and the opponent’s 30-yard line — to seek a big play by getting the defense out of position.

The outside wide receiver to the boundary fakes a block for the screen as the inside receiver drifts outside, then the outside receiver explodes hard vertically. On this particular play, the <a href="