Sprinters do lots of heavy squats. That should tell you something.
Power cleans are more or less standard to help you jump up and extend and catch like lightning.
Even for your presses, push pressing can give you that explosive push you need.
In rows, do the Pendlay row. Pulling each row from the ground requires acceleration which you don't get in the 45 degree conventional bent over row. Also maintains the same back angle every rep.
In deads, forget touch and go. Pull every lift from the floor for best acceleration, even if the weight is so heavy it appears to move slowly.
In shrugs, do them power shrug/Starr shrug style, ie with an explosive pull before the intense contraction and hold at the top fighting the weight.
I often do a simple lever bar catch after my lever bar work for forearms. The lever bar is simply an adjustable spinlock dumbell weighted only on one side. The other threaded loading end is used as a handle. After pronating and supinating till my hands fall off, I take a short break. Then toss the lever bar from one hand to the other. This involves your crush grip heavily, as well as your wrist strength. But it requires, not a slow squeeze like a lot of moves, but an explosive contraction of the gripping muscles and the wrist stabilizers. Otherwise the lever bar would wrench itself out of your grip.
Teaches your gripping power to switch on instantaneously. Could be handy on the field.
Altho' pylometrics for speed stimulation originated in Russia and Eastern Europe, they DO NOT OVERUSE them like Western athletes. They simply include a SHORT period EVERY FEW MONTHS where they do LOW REP, LOW VOLUME plyometrics. The potential for injury is too great to include them in your main program.
I think that the foolish way that plyos are regarded as the cure all for speed in the West, is really a Commie plot to keep Western athletes injured and out of the running for gold medals
, on the other hand it very well could be true.
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