After years of torn ACLs and vying for opportunity that never came, Ford is contributing both on gamedays and practice fields as the sage veteran in a young USC receiver room.
USC wide receiver Kyle Ford, right, celebrates his touchdown during the first half of their game against Rutgers last week at the Coliseum. LOS ANGELES — This generation of Ford men was raised to fight, on fields far and wide, throughout consequence. Dan Ford Sr. played professional baseball. His son Dan played college football at Kent State.
“All the stuff I’ve been through,” Dan remembered his son asking him, midway through the year, “is this God’s plan for me?”So Ford played it out. Nothing much changed, finishing with 22 catches in 12 games. He hit the portal again in March, and Lincoln Riley came calling, promising competition in a young USC receiver room. By April,changed, and Ford has found himself in the same position he’s been in his entire college career. Stuck, fighting for snaps. Stuck, as the clock ticks.
Ford, now, has a handful of college games left, and 14 catches in eight games this season. He has yet to eclipse 400 yards in a season. A free-agent contract might be the only light that remains at the end of a long tunnel, one of the stranger careers in recent local college memory. But then Ford returns to Howard Jones Field, the self-actualized sage in a room full of sophomores battling in the same position he was once in, and leaves it all behind.
“I just want to help this team win games,” Ford said. “And I feel like I’ve been doing a good job of that, and hopefully that does translate and set a good example for the rest of these years coming.” Gabriel Fernandez, 8, was tortured to death. His mother didn’t like her life sentence. This is what a judge had to say.
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