Abstract: A football training device to train football running backs to break tackles simulates the arms of tacklers by resisting movement of the football player's foot upwardly and downwardly through target apertures. The device includes a frame with a series of target apertures configured in two parallel rows. The football trainer runs through the device by stepping into the apertures. As he does so, elastomeric sheet affixed to the top of the frame resists movement of the football player's foot downwardly into the aperture and upwardly out of the aperture, thereby simulating the action of the arms of would-be tacklers.