An overutitlized word, a lot of journalists write things like dropped to make their writing sound tougher. If a
guy hasn'
t landed on his head, or fell 2 or more storeys against his will, he wasn'
t really dropped, he was just knocked down (if he went all the way down).
Quarterbacks who got sacked didn'
t get dropped (no matter how many yards they lost in the process), they got knocked down. The same applies to a
guy getting knocked down in any other
sport.