{"id":12325,"date":"2026-09-09T00:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/?p=12325"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:45:33","slug":"why-be-a-long-snapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/?p=12325","title":{"rendered":"Why Be a Long Snapper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/?attachment_id=12330\">Why Be a Long Snapper?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Why Be a Long Snapper?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a relatively safe position. Nowadays, the defending player is not allowed to line up over you and not allowed to hit you until you get your head up or a count of one!<\/li>\n<li>No one else can ever affect your snap. It is just you and Mother Nature.<\/li>\n<li>You do NOT have to be the best athlete in the world to do it<\/li>\n<li>You do NOT have to be built like a Greek God to do it.<\/li>\n<li>It is actually not too hard once you get the form down. The form is the key. It is one specific motion over and over like shooting a free throw.<\/li>\n<li>You can do it for a long time.<\/li>\n<li>It is a great conversation starter since very few people actually know what the position really is on the team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"bawpvc-ajax-counter\" data-id=\"12325\">0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Be a Long Snapper? Why Be a Long Snapper? It is a relatively safe position. Nowadays, the defending player is not allowed to line up over you and not allowed to hit you until you get your head up or a count of one! No one else can ever affect your snap. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1147,2,34,3,48],"tags":[6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,15,16,17,19,20,39,23],"class_list":["post-12325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deep-snapper","category-featured-posts","category-long-snapper","category-nfl","category-recruiting","category-relationships","tag-chrisubio","tag-collegeecruiting","tag-deep-snap","tag-deep-snapper-2","tag-deep-snapping","tag-deepsnap","tag-deepsnapper","tag-deepsnapping","tag-long-snapper-2","tag-long-snappers","tag-long-snapping","tag-longsnapper","tag-longsnapping","tag-rubio-long-snapper","tag-rubio-long-snapping","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12331,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325\/revisions\/12331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}