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and cornerback. Canadian formations include two cornerbacks, two halfbacks and one safety, for a total of five defensive backs.Besides the standard set of defensive backs, teams may also remove a defensive lineman or a linebacker and replace them with an additional defensive back. The fifth defensive back is commonly called the nickelback (so named because a five-cent coin in the U.S. and Canada is called a nickel). By extension,

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