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tackler

[ UK /tˈæklɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a football player who tackles the ball carrier

How To Use tackler In A Sentence

  • He is a sure tackler with great quickness.
  • He shook off a couple would-be tacklers and bulldogged it for a couple yards more till our own Michael Jameson came flying in like a Mack Truck and blindsided him at the thirteen yard line. An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football
  • Broncos MLB Al, the team's leading tackler and lone veteran linebacker healthy, was having an Pro Bowl-caliber season before suffering a neck stinger on Sunday.
  • Even with the loss of their leading tackler and rusher, I see the Patriots pulling away methodically over the course of the night.
  • But he was a decent tackler and a great passer. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
  • No wonder they were trying to elude the tackler rather than crash straight into him. Times, Sunday Times
  • He thought that Alex and Dave Smith were unconvincing tacklers, whereas Coutts in his own central defence was rock-like.
  • Lunge-and-grab tackler who despite his quickness, is better covering in the short area than on deep routes ... USATODAY.com
  • He is an excellent tackler with terrific instincts and the speed to chase down plays.
  • But Stewart is coach Bobby Ross' kind of rusher: a bullish no-nonsense runner, just as capable of running around tacklers as through them.
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