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Members · Jul 15, 2026

Notre Dame's Verts Variations

How Mike Denbrock Dials Up 4 Verts

4 Verts is a great passing concept to stretch the defense vertically, but Mike Denbrock adds some details for the defense to have to cover the whole field.

Notre Dame ran Verts 58 times in 2025, averaging 11.2 yards per attempt. They had a 62% success rate with it.

Mike Denbrock calls his Verts concept “Sun” and below are some cutups from Notre Dame running it and some playbook material from when Denbrock was OC at Cincinnati in 2021.

2x2 Sun (Seam)

This is the 2x2 variation of Denbrock’s Verts concept. Outside WRs are on stop routes which are 12 yard retraces and then convert vs press or cloud.

The frontside WR or TE is on a locked seam route, unless he is tagged. If he is tagged, he has a locked stop route at 12 yards. The backside WR or TE is on a seam read, keeping it up the seam against MOFC and bending it against MOFO. This is to make sure the seam routes keep their spacing from each other.

In the clip below, we see the defense roll to cover 3 cloud and CJ Carr throw the seam read that keeps it up the seam since it is MOFC.

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