He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2012, and was also a member of the Minnesota Vikings, Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns.
Ford attended Corrigan-Camden High School in Corrigan, Texas, where he was a letterman in football, basketball and track.
[2] In track & field, he competed as a sprinter and ran the third leg on the Bulldogs' 4 × 400 m relay squad, helping them win the Texas Class 2A T&F Meet with a time of 3:20.08 minutes.
After his sophomore season at Kilgore, Ford chose to enroll at the University of Miami over scholarship offers from Arizona and Illinois.
On April 29, 2012, he signed with the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent, where he spent a week on the practice squad.