The first sign James Daniels picked up on that he would soon be pivoting from left guard to center in his second pro season came early this spring, when he received an actual phone call — not merely a text message — from position coach Harry Hiestand.
“Usually when coach talks to me, he just texts me,” Daniels, 21, the Bears 2018 second-round millennial from Iowa, told PFW Wednesday of the news delivered by his baby boomer coach. “So when he called me, I knew he was going to say something.”