What is the difference between fb and hb

Can someone explain the difference between these roles? Bomber New Member. Joined: Aug 30, Messages: Likes Received: 0. Wikipedia has decent articles on the NFL: should answer most of your fundamental information requirements. WhiteShoeWillis Active Member. Joined: Mar 20, Messages: 19, Likes Received: 1. HB half back and RB running back are one in the same and the terms are interchangable.

The HB is generally the player in the backfield that gets the majority of the rushing attempts. FB full back is usually used more as a lead blocker out of the backfield, though they do get to carry the ball at times. Fullbacks are bigger and slower than halfbacks because their primary role is as a blocker.

Usually a FB only carries the ball on short yardage and goalline situations as their bigger size makes it easier to run over defenders and push the pile to pick up a yard or two. Tennessee Jet New Member. Joined: Mar 4, Messages: Likes Received: 0. You may also hear tailback TB thrown in their. Its essentially the same positiona as HB and RB. Dierking Well-Known Member. Joined: Apr 4, Messages: 13, Likes Received: 11, The Uniform Bomber Spivey's Agent.

Joined: Jan 22, Messages: 8, Likes Received: Carpetbagger Well-Known Member. Joined: Aug 28, Messages: 5, Likes Received: Joined: Sep 11, Messages: 2, Likes Received: 0. Way back in old-timey football, there was the quarterback, the halfback actually usually two , and the fullback. The QB lined up just under center, the halfback behind him halfway back , and the full back in the rear fully back.

If there were two HBs on the field they'd be side by side common in the early part of the century. Over time as the game evolved, the roles shifted around, the fullback typically lined up just behind the QB, as a lead blocker, and the HB went in back, but the names just never changed.

Which brings us back to the start: This Twitter person is just spewing garb-o in an attempt to sound smart. Like others are saying here, the two terms basically mean the same thing nowadays, but in the early-mid 20th century football, the fullback would line up behind the halfback, and that's why they were named like that.

Larry Csonka was technically the fullback for Jim Kiick, and given that Csonka had so many more touches than Kiick did at the time, it's a reflection of how fullbacks and halfbacks were used interchangeably at that time. In the case of Pittsburgh in the s, Rocky Bleier was technically a halfback, but often played the fullback role to block for Franco Harris. But, it can be argued that you hear the term "running back" more than you hear the term "halfback" nowadays.

With the way the league is going today, we're probably going to end up dropping the "running back" term too, and just call that position the "backfield receiver. You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Paste as plain text instead.

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