The Flag Football Tryout Evaluation Form, Built for the 5v5 Game

A flag football tryout evaluation form scores every player on six categories: athleticism, football IQ, ball skills, blocking and tackling scored as flag pulling, routes and coverage, and effort and coachability. What makes a flag form different from a tackle form is the weighting, not the skeleton: in the non-contact 5v5 game there are no linemen, so speed, ball skills, and a clean flag pull decide games, and the blocking skill barely matters. This page covers the categories, a filled-out example from a 10U tryout, and how to keep a whole evaluator crew scoring the same way. The blank printable lives at the tryout evaluation form template, the event logistics live at how to run a flag football tryout, and the tackle version of this form is at the football tryout evaluation form guide.

Score six categories: athleticism, football IQ, ball skills, blocking and tackling (scored as flag pulling), routes and coverage, and effort and coachability. Flag football shares Rizzler's default six-category football evaluation template, and that sharing is deliberate: the sport's skills are football skills. What changes is what you watch for inside each row, because the 5v5 game removes the line of scrimmage battle and plays everyone in space.

Almost every player fills every row in flag. With five on the field and most athletes playing both ways, the two-way rows (routes on offense, coverage and flag pulling on defense) are exactly where rosters get sorted. If your league splits offense and defense specialists, leave the unattempted skill blank rather than guessing.

Here is a completed form for a 10U quarterback and rusher candidate, scored 1 to 10 across a one-day tryout. Reading a finished form teaches the system faster than instructions do.

The notes are doing the real work. "Hit 7 of 10 moving targets" is evidence a staff can rank on and a parent can hear in February; "good arm" is neither. Train every evaluator to score right after the rep and write one short note per category.

Use 1 to 5 on paper and 1 to 10 when scoring in an app. Five points is fast to mark with a pen while groups rotate; ten points separates a big field better when tapping is as fast as writing, and it converts straight to a percentage for ranking. Then anchor the categories coaches argue about most. For 10U flag pulling: a 7 means breaks down and makes clean pulls on a full-speed ball carrier; a 5 means pulls in confined drills but grabs cloth in space; a 3 means reaching, not running through the flag. Calibrate the crew on the first few players: two coaches score the same three kids, compare, and close any gap before spreading across fields. Scores drift as evaluators tire, so recalibrate after a lunch break on a two-session day.