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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 1095567" data-attributes="member: 7261">I think its a bit of both.  From a players perspective, they make more money as a starter on offense or defense, an injury on special teams could jeopardize their ability to make future money playing their position.From a teams perspective, special teams are low hanging fruit to many coaches and they don't want to risk a starter getting injured playing on ST's.All that said, how many players get injured returning kicks and punts?  Seems like very few, but I could be wrong.For me, special teams should be a bigger focus.  Final scores often come down to a point or 2.  Picking-up/Giving-Up a big play on special teams could ultimately be the difference in the outcome of a game.</blockquote>

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