What Chicago Bears signing Isaiah Ford means

The Chicago Bears are tying together some loose ends and getting things prepared for the start of training camp. One housekeeping note was the team signing Isaiah Ford just before the start of training camp. Ford was a seventh-round draft pick in 2017 by the Miami Dolphins.

Chicago Bears sign WR Isaiah Ford

After a full year on the practice squad, he spent some time on the active roster in 2018. In 2019, he recorded 244 yards with the Dolphins. In 2020, he was traded to the Patriots in the offseason but was released and found himself back in Miami. He put up 276 yards that season. Then, in 2021, he had just 161 yards.

The Dolphins had him for five seasons and then decided it was time to part ways when Mike McDaniel became the new coach. Ford caught on with the Indianapolis Colts, although he did not make the active roster. He stuck on the practice squad for the full season, and now we are here in 2022.

Overall, Ford is a former seventh-round pick, and making it seven years in the NFL is a nice career, even if he just bounced from practice squads. Still, as far as his potential impact on the Chicago Bears, it seems unlikely.

Ford does not bring special teams value, which is going to kill his chances, and had crushed his dreams in the past. Guys such as Velus Jones, Dante Pettis, Equanimeous St. Brown, and even Joe Reed and Nsimba Webster have better cases to make the roster based on their special teams prowess.

You could make the case that Isaiah Ford would be ahead of players such as Daurice Fountain, Thrick Pitts, and Aron Cruickshank, and one of them going on the PUP or being released may be the correlating move to get Ford onto the roster. So, He has his value, but many would look at him as a training camp body.

He will push the names ahead of him and has enough NFL experience to be taken seriously as competition, but that is all fans should expect.