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It sounds like you are high bar squatting? If you are and are trying to keep a more vertical torso, I often find that ankle dorsiflexion is the limiting factor for people. If your knees are farther forward your hips will be less far back, and therefor your torso will have to be less far forward. Ankle dorsiflexion is pretty easy to improve if you just hang out in the bottom of a body weight squat with your knees as far forward as you can put them for a few minutes a day. With good ankle dorsiflexion and front squats you can get a nearly vertical back and almost pure quad isolation if that's your goal.
My personal preference is for less forward knee travel, but necessarily your hips will have to move farther back and your torso will have to lean over more to compensate. Resting the bar in a low bar position moves the moment arm of the barbell back in this case, leaving a more vertical bar path. I've found mysquatmechanics to be pretty good if you want to visualize the paths given changes to constraints in joint angles, anthropometry, bar position, etc.
Yes, high bar squatting. I'm not even sure I can hold the bar on my rear delts, not enough mobility in my shoulders to pull the arms back and down.
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