Famously used by the Seattle Seahawks and Ohio State Buckeyes, the Florida Gators are working on rugby-style tackling drills during fall practice.

Chris Brown from Smart Football wrote about the subject last year.

“Recently, the USA Football, with the support of the NFL, has begun putting out a series of videos and other materials about “Heads Up” or “safe tackling” – though the reality is there can never truly be such a thing – but the method they propose is not much different than what has traditionally been taught and the head is still front and center in the tackle. And it’s not necessarily the easiest way to get a moving target to the ground, so defenders end up resorting to more haphazard methods just to get the tackle made.”

Pete Carroll’s tackling techniques are based on a rugby-style, “shoulder-to-thigh” approach.

Here are the Gators working on the fundamentals of tackling with the rugby-style technique:

Here’s more on the subject by Carroll:

[H/T Alligator Army]