Usually means: Defensive players tackling, blocking, covering.
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  1. linebackers: Merriam-Webster
  2. linebackers: Collins English Dictionary
  3. linebackers: Vocabulary.com
  4. Linebackers, linebacker's, linebackers: Wordnik
  5. linebackers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. linebackers: Wiktionary
  7. linebackers: Dictionary.com
  8. linebackers: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Linebackers: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Linebackers: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See linebacker as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (linebacker)

noun:  (American football) The defensive players who are in position behind the defensive linemen and in front of the safeties and cornerbacks and whose principal responsibilities are to tackle runners and to defend against shorter passes.
▸ Also see linebacker


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