Chicago Bears: Will James Daniels start at G in Preseason Week 4?

With a lot of meaningless snaps available and no starters playing in preseason Week Four, will the Chicago Bears give James Daniels a long look at guard?

It seems as though we have ended the debate once and for about what position James Daniels will play. We think. Maybe. When he was drafted, the team said guard and they have never wavered off of that idea.

However, over the past month, Daniels has been taking snaps almost exclusively at center. Daniels started the Chicago Bears fourth preseason game at center, but then finished the game at left guard, next to Hroniss Grasu.

The reasoning the Bears have pointed to with regards to giving Daniels these valuable snaps at center was that they needed a backup center due to the injury status of Grasu.

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When Grasu came back from injury and brushed the dust off in the second half, the team immediately gave Earl Watford his walking papers. This tends to back the idea that the Chicago Bears feel as though Eric Kush and James Daniels are guards moving forward. Hroniss Grasu is a pure center and will be the backup center, helping those two only move to center in emergency situations.

So, the idea heading into the fifth preseason game is that all of these snaps Daniels is taking as an emergency center have taken him off of his primary goal; beating Eric Kush in the battle for left guard.

There are no more snaps until the season starts. The team saw how far away Jordan Morgan was in the Hall of Fame game and have not looked back. Earl Watford is gone, and Eric Kush is the starter who will be benched for this game.

If the Chicago Bears are serious about James Daniels transitioning to guard he will start next to Hroniss Grasu and play at the very least the first half. That is what they would do if they eventually have him slated to start at guard, that is.

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