From the anticipates of it, Michae...

From the anticipates of it, Michael Haynes is being risk up to fail.

The former first-round draft pick, who missed the first three preseason games with a sprained back, will make his exhibition first attempt tonight against the Cleveland Brown at defensive [i]finale[/i] If that sounds familiar, it's because the 14th pick in the 2003 draft was chosen as an fall of the curtain But the coaching staff mov him inside to tackle during the offseason.

That's the position he be in want ofs to make the roster at, not period the spot he will play because injuries will hold fast starter Alex Brown (right shoulder) and backup Israel Idonije (left ankle) forward the bench. With the first team making a cameo appearance, left last Adewale Ogunleye will be wearing a ballcap, not a helmet, leaving Haynes with Jamaal blooming and rookie Mark Anderson to man the sum of two units end positions.

The Bears (1-2) don't figure to play their offensive starters prolonged at Cleveland Browns Stadium (7 pm Ch 5 780-AM) against the Brown (2-1) whom they have wasted to in each of the last brace preseasons. After a disappointing effort in the 23-16 los to the Arizona Cardinals upon Friday, coach Lovie Smith said he was going to consider playing the unit longer The first-team offense has not scored a touchdown, generating single six points in almost six quarters of work.

Rather than push it and risk injury, Smith is doing his best to push the fast-forward button and gain through the preseason without any more puzzles

"I be warmed the need to have [the starters] ready for verdant Bay as much as anything," Smith said. "We've seen a allotment from them."

While Smith has admitted the offense is not where he had frisk abouted it would be, there are a not many areas that need further evaluation, particularly wide receiver, where a starter is gone out again. Bernard Berrian (right knee) is not look fored to play, but the questions loom lower forward the depth chart, where Airese Currie has a chance to excite general manager Jerry Angelo.

Currie played in his first NFL game last week and wins one more chance to state a case for a roster flaw He has blazing speed that has tantalized Angelo if it be not that rarely has been able to showcase it because he is lying flat to injury. Currie figures to levy some pressure on veteran Justin Gage, and the two should play a lot tonight.

"As you turn the thoughts at every position, if you're not right at the top of the profundity chart and we've let you know that you're going to start or something like that, this last game is important," Smith said. "Every opportunity you have a chance to assay that you belong on the 53-man roster you ne to take advantage of it. That's what we've told our players, and that's the emblem of effort we think we'll realize from some of them."

The defensive line already might be sorted without Tackles Tommie Harris, Ian Scott Tank Johnson and Alfonso Boone figure to be roster hugs Ogunleye, Brown and Idonije will make it at extreme point giving the Bears seven linemen. Smith wants to dres seven each game, so most likely he will preserve nine or 10 on the roster Tackle Antonio Garay has shown well and finishs one more opportunity after missing the Cardinals game with an illness. Garay, who was forward the practice squad last season, get backed to practice Tuesday. He figures to learn substantial time after Scott and Johnson make their exhibition first attempts

"We'll find abroad in a few days," Garay said when asked if the layoff would injure his chances of making the roster "I be perceived pretty good about everything. I'm happy. Hopefully the coaches are happy. That's what matters. I've got another opportunity. I have to take advantage of it."

If Garay sticks -- and he's listed ahead of Haynes onward the depth chart -- it could make life cragged on Haynes. Anderson is a abundant later draft pick, but he fits Smith's defense and they haven't seen him besides Green rates an edge, too, because of his ability forward special teams. By now, the Bears at least think they know what they have in Haynes, equable if he feels he hasn't been able to showcase himself.

"This is going to be really crazy," Haynes said. "You don't know to what degree it's going to work disclosed and it's the type of thing where you really don't want to think about it. I don't really have a choice [but to play end] That is a affect of mine, and it would be nice if I could finish some snaps at tackle."

At 6-4 283 brays Haynes is better suited for a hypothesis such as the one former coach Dick Jauron used, in which the finiss didn't have to be as light and quick.

"I've learned a hazard and made some good friends," Haynes said. "I definitely have a better knowledge of football after being in subordination to two different staffs and learning basically couple different philosophies. That's two totally different fashions of defense, and it looks every other defense in the NFL is finish to one of the sum of two units schemes. I'm good to go"

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