cornerbackin a sentence
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For the team to have a chance, the cornerbacks are going to have to have great games.
cornerbacks = defensive players who line up closest to the sideline to defend against passes
- I looked over my shoulder at the forty and saw one of their cornerbacks gaining on me. (source)
- Right-side cornerbacks, even further from the line of scrimmage, were paid the same as left-side cornerbacks.† (source)
- Tennessee's freshman cornerback, Eric Berry, was covering Coop, and Riley was supposed to come in just underneath him.† (source)
- No quarterback or cornerback or anyone else in any way associated with football had ever invited him to do anything.† (source)
- Tommy started as a wide receiver for Louisiana Tech but was converted to cornerback his junior year.† (source)
- And then some cornerback scooped it up and started running.† (source)
- They had a solid cornerback, Myron Lewis, who stayed on Riley Cooper all game.† (source)
- With the cornerback 15 yards from the end zone, Ogden still trails him by 10 yards.† (source)
- As our cornerback came up to tackle him, the halfback dropped back into a passing position.† (source)
- A cornerback went for an ankle tackle that I stepped out of.† (source)
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- I cut left and juked the cornerback, and suddenly I was looking at seventy yards of empty space.† (source)
- A cornerback dropped on it, and they were back in business inside our thirty.† (source)
- They slanted the defensive front right side of the line into our play call, blitzed the linebackers right into it, and blitzed the cornerback off the edge of the defense.† (source)
- Realizing, finally, that he won't catch the cornerback, Ogden decides to use this poor unsuspecting fellow as a human missile.† (source)
- The cornerback who picked off the pass and ran it back for a touchdown has no idea what nearly hit him.† (source)
- The other team might have an inept cornerback, for instance, and the smart coach will know how to exploit him.† (source)
- There's no way that Jonathan Ogden, NFL left tackle, can be faster than an NFL cornerback, but don't tell him that.† (source)
- The cornerback who has picked off the pass flies down the sideline—it's 60 yards to the end zone and there's nothing between him and it.† (source)
- The cornerback covering DeShawn cut underneath him and made the interception on a dead run, and then he was off—down the sideline.† (source)
- Rogers's cornerback cut in front of the intended receiver, plucked the ball out of the air, and took off.† (source)
- Inside their forty-five, I gave their cornerback a hip fake, cut left, then immediately cut back to the right, leaving a second guy in my wake.† (source)
- Michael Tucker, a senior cornerback, ran it out to the twenty-seven, and then Drew and I trotted out onto the field, starters for the first time.† (source)
- Foothill's band was playing their fight song over and over; their fans were delirious; their entire team had poured into the end zone to swarm the cornerback who'd scored the touchdown.† (source)
- A little stutter step followed by a quick burst took care of the safety, and I had enough speed to take it all the way to the end zone before the final cornerback reached me.† (source)
- Our right cornerback?† (source)
- I guess he's the quarterback or cornerback or something on the football team, except he just graduated, so I don't think he's anything anymore, but apparently being quarterback or cornerback is like being a Marine: it's a once/always thing.† (source)
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