NOUN
- (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
How To Use ball carrier In A Sentence
- They all could run right through a ball carrier or bury a quarterback.
- You'll be lucky to get out of the backfield with your ball carrier, but at least you won't be able to complete as many long bombs.
- They refused to allow their opponents into an easy scoring position and when they stole the ball the rest acted as support players for the ball carrier.
- He can drop the hammer on a ball carrier, and he can ballhawk a pass when he gets the chance.
- Or - and this one sounds so easy and is so mentally and physically tough - run that decoy to take the defence away from the ball carrier and set up a quick play-the-ball? NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
- The defense consistently over-pursued the ball carrier and failed to contain the outside.
- Billy had a forthright game, and combined with Richard to produce a powerful combination of endomorphic ball carriers.
- Until, that is, the red lights went on in pregame shows and Smith noted the need for "carousing" ball carriers, players who'd had "rites of patches" and teams that "got debacled" and that you "can't change the stripes of a leopard. With Emmitt Smith out, could ESPN get Brett Favre?
- To the last microwatt of his mental energies he drove in behind Tong and Worsel like a fullback hitting the fine of scrimmage to break the opposition and drive the ball carrier forward. The Dragon Lensman
- The inevitable first port of call, to my mind, will be monstering the ball carrier. Times, Sunday Times