Vulture Back
A running back who takes scoring chances from the starter
Example
It's hard for me to take him so early in the draft cuz of all the vulture backs around him
Related Slang
| RB | Running back |
| Handcuff | A fantasy football backup player |
| FF | Fantasy football |
| ffb | Fantasy football |
| FFL | Fantasy football league |
| Flex | Fantasy football position that can be a RB, WR, or TE |
| Ghostship | A fantasy football team with no owner |
| ADP | Average draft position |
| Draft dasher | A fantasy football owner who drafts a team and abandons it |
Can you survive our Dungeons & Dragons slang quiz?
A vulture back is a football term for a running back that is put in on scoring opportunities to replace the starting running back. In many cases, the vulture back is usually bigger than the starting back, which makes it easier to score when close to the end zone.
Vulture backs are especially frustrating for fantasy football owners because they steal valuable TD points away from the back that they have started. Vulture backs also don't rush for many yards so they can't be started in place of the other back cause their only chance to gain points comes from goal line carries.