Backs
Defenders
Both words in one sentence
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Have fun as poorly rated defenders intercept your elite franchise QB and 3rd string running backs bowl over your elite linebacker who has a maxed out tackling ability rating.
Source: Video Game / Madden NFL - Perhaps the biggest change was the rule that effected defensive backs; previously, defenders could make contact with receivers anywhere on the field past the line of scrimmage.
Source: Genre Turning Point - In The Stormlight Archive, the Knights Radiant, defenders of mankind, turned their backs on humanity and abandoned their weapons many years before the books, gaining the reputation of traitors and blasphemers.
Source: Order Reborn
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