{"id":362392,"date":"2025-09-12T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/362392\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:59:14","slug":"former-steelers-starting-ol-suffers-serious-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/362392\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Steelers Starting OL Suffers Serious Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8-9-2024-Steelers-v-Texans-at-Acrisure-Stadium-0150-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Steelers OG James Daniels\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman James Daniels runs out of the tunnel before a game on Aug. 9, 2024. &#8212; Ed Thomson \/ Steelers Now\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman James Daniels will be sidelined for the foreseeable future after suffering a serious injury in Week 1 of the 2025 NFL regular season with the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels suffered a pectoral injury that is expected to keep him out at least a month and land him on injured reserve, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1965508479487279179\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">according to NFL Network insider Tom Pelissero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old joined the Dolphins on a three-year, $24 million contract this offseason to be their starting right guard. Luckily for Miami, it is not expected to be a season-ending injury.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels is also likely grateful that is the case after he suffered a season-ending Achilles injury in Week 4 of the 2024 season with the Steelers. <\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh then decided to move forward with 2024 fourth-round draft pick Mason McCormick at right guard. McCormick replaced Daniels after the injury, starting 14 games.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8-9-2024-Steelers-v-Texans-at-Acrisure-Stadium-1583-scaled-788x552.jpg\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Steelers OL Mason McCormick\" class=\"wp-image-77388\"  \/>Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Mason McCormick in a preseason game against the Houston Texans on Aug. 10, 2024. \u2014 Ed Thompson \/ Steelers Now<\/p>\n<p>Daniels first joined the Steelers in 2022, signing a three-year contract with the team as a free agent from the Chicago Bears. He started 17 games in 2022 and 15 games in 2023, all at right guard, before playing just four games this past season.<\/p>\n<p>He was selected in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft by the Bears out of Iowa and played in Chicago until his rookie deal expired.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels\u2019 contract with the Dolphins will add a compensatory draft pick slot for the Steelers, so it will certainly be an injury to monitor as they continue to stockpile picks ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Warren, Ohio, Daniels committed to play football for the\u00a0Iowa\u00a0in July 2014 over schools such as\u00a0Alabama,\u00a0Auburn and\u00a0Ohio State.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned In This Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/james-daniels\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">James Daniels<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/miami-dolphins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers News Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman James Daniels runs out of the tunnel before a game on Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,5855,251,57,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-362392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-james-daniels","10":"tag-miami-dolphins","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","12":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115191924579895929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}