Last Sunday, Doug Williams of ESPN.com Playbook published a story that provides a compelling and comprehensive look at the growth of long snapping camps.  Featuring Cole Mazza, widely regarded as this past season’s top high school snapper and an Alabama recruit with a full scholarship, and his instructor, Chris Rubio of Rubio’s Long Snapping, the story describes the growing cottage industry of long snapping camps.

In addition to helping young snappers hone the various skills that snappers need, such as accuracy, velocity, consistency and blocking, the camps are also critical to identifying talent for college coaches. For example, Rubio’s camps helped his snappers secure 66 college commitments this season alone.