GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Morgan Burnett wouldn’t say what the position is called -- or even what defensive package the Green Bay Packers were in -- but anyone who saw what he did Thursday at practice could tell he wasn’t playing his traditional strong safety spot.
He looked more like a linebacker.
Just don’t compare him to Arizona’s Deone Bucannon, who plays a hybrid safety-linebacker position that the Cardinals have renamed the dollar linebacker.
“I’m still a safety,” Burnett insisted after Thursday’s practice.
He offered little else about what appears to be a new role in either the nickel or dime defense, depending on what defensive coordinator Dom Capers calls it.