When the Bears flipped center Cody Whitehair and left guard James Daniels in the offseason — moving Daniels to center and Whitehair to left guard — it looked like a no-brainer. They were enhancing a strength rather than covering up a weakness.
Whitehair made the Pro Bowl as an alternate at center in 2018; Daniels showed promise at guard as a rookie, better in the second half than he was in the first. But the offseason switch put each player in the position he played in college. Whitehair, a second-round draft pick (56th overall) in 2016, was a guard at Kansas State.