User blog comment:TrueCharles/Possible Blackbeard Whitebeard devil fruit transfer/@comment-26058050-20161114150326

Absorb is probably the wrong word for blackbeards DF power. I would go with "nulify" instead since whenever he touches a person, they lose their df powers, yet once he let's go, they can use their powers again.

It's possible that he carries a fruit, yet it would be very difficult for the devil fruit to go exactly to that fruit, since we don't know the full radius of the df respawning location.

It's stated canonly that the only logical explaination (to date) is that Blackbeard has an abnormal body, and thus is able to use two df's, as stated by the Whitebeard pirates.

The goal of the blackbeards, besides getting the OP, is to remove all df's from the world, and since it's highly possible that the rest of the crew knows how to remove them, the removal might not be related to blackbeards df powers. This is all theoretical of course.