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What is a rusher?

What is a rusher? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person who rushes.
  2. (American football) The fast defensive position whose objective is to sack the offensive team's quarterback.
  3. (obsolete) One who strews rushes.
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Defensively, they need a ballhawking safety, an interior pass rusher and more speed at linebacker.
He was a rusher and ran trains close, but he was ever watchful and wide awake.
By a line half-back is meant that one who, upon his opponents' plays, comes up into the line and performs the duties of a rusher.
But Frisk makes a strong case that rusher was not a mere populist propagandist.
Bradshaw was the second-leading rusher on the Colts squad and recorded 425 yards and two touchdowns.
The rusher may play golf, but it will be a long time before he gets to the soul of the game.

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