On draft night, when the Seahawks took Cody Barton in the third round with the 88th pick overall out of Utah, coach Pete Carroll said the plan was to use him initially at weakside linebacker.
“I was like ‘okay, I’m cool with that,’’’ Barton said Saturday.
But truth be told, while he was willing to do whatever the Seahawks asked, the weakside spot is not where his heart is.
So, as good as the last week has been, it became even better when he got on the field Friday for the beginning of the team’s rookie mini-camp and the team told him to line up at middle linebacker, where he has played for almost every snap of the first two days of the three-day camp.