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A backup player who steals a touchdown that a fantasy manager's starting player had otherwise earned through the drive, most commonly a backup running back scoring on the goal line.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Had the game basically won until the backup vultured the touchdown on the one-yard line."

LORE & ORIGIN

Long-standing fantasy football vocabulary describing the frustrating and common scenario where scoring credit goes to a different player than the one who did the yardage work.

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2010
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