Drop back

"Drop back" in a Sentence (3 examples)

The Tiger quarterback is dropping back to pass.

Without the ball, he was often the furthest player forward, harrying Raphaël Varane and Éder Militão and cutting off the supply to Casemiro (all of whom had wretched games). When City won the ball, meanwhile, he dropped back, slipping between the lines, demanding the ball and laying it off economically.

With his ankle injury his drop back is not pretty.

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