Isaiah

Ford

Ford has logged four seasons in the league but wasn’t on a roster in 2022. The former seventh-round pick played sparingly in four seasons with the Dolphins, appearing in 32 games while catching 63 passes for 681 yards and two touchdowns. At this point, he’d be little more than a camp body if he were to sign with the Bears.

Ford has bounced on and off the Miami roster for the past couple seasons, starting two games in 2021 and catching 12 of his 17 targets, including a late-season touchdown against the Giants. If he makes the team, Ford would probably serve as the Colts’ WR4 or WR5. He’s off the fantasy radar.

They also brought in WR Keelan Doss for a tryout. The No. 237 overall pick of the 2017 Draft, Ford actually played out his entire rookie contract in Miami but was allowed to walk this spring. He caught at least 12 balls each of the past three years but has only two career scores. He has a limited history of returns on special teams, so the third unit probably won’t be his golden ticket to cracking the Giants’ 53-man roster.

Wilson won’t play in the Dolphins’ Monday night tilt against the Saints. His absence could open up more routes and targets for WR Isaiah Ford, who caught three passes for 51 yards last week against the Jets. Ford could see a handful of targets in the pass-heavy Miami offense.

Ford got free on a Tua Tagovailoa roll-out for a two-yard TD that helped seal the Dolphins’ win. Ford is a reserve receiver and remains off the fantasy radar. The Dolphins are on bye in Week 14 and face the Jets in Week 15.

With Will Fuller (finger) nursing the world’s longest finger injury and DeVante Parker (hamstring) on injured reserve, the Dolphins are “remembering some guys” in their receiver corps, with Ford’s 84 yards this evening blowing away his previous 2021 total of 13. The vast majority of his production, 52 yards, came on a first half coverage bust. Even against the Jets, we would not count on a Week 11 repeat.

This adds depth with DeVante Parker (shoulder, hamstring) out and Preston Williams (core) questionable. Ford, who set career highs with Miami before getting traded last year, has appeared in just one game this season.

Ford played 50% of the snaps or more in six Dolphins games last season, and in between his two stints in Miami last year, was sent to New England for a conditional sixth-round pick and then waived. Ford was non-tendered in the offseason and had just two targets in Week 1 of the preseason. It’s a quiet ending in Miami for a receiver who lit up the 2020 transactions wire. There are plenty of other Patriots regimes in the wild, so perhaps he will latch on to a new one.

Miami traded Ford to the Patriots at last year’s deadline and claimed him off waivers when they cut him in December. He was non-tendered this offseason but rejoins a crowded depth chart, with Allen Hurns, Albert Wilson, Jakeem Grant, and Mack Hollins all competing for spots. The Dolphins waived Brian Cole and OL Tyler Gauthier to make room for Ford.

Ford was drafted in the seventh round in 2017 but has not been able to make a considerable impact since then. Miami traded him to New England in the middle of the 2020 season but New England ultimately cut him after a few weeks. Miami signed him after the brief New England stint and he earned his first NFL start in Week 17. There’s a chance that Miami brings him back in free agency but he’ll be far from a lock to make the final roster in the summer.