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Paris Ford Re-Signs with USFL's New Jersey Generals

The former Pitt Panthers star is keeping his pro football career alive.

Stephen Thompson

Paris Ford Re-Signs with USFL's New Jersey Generals
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PITTSBURGH -- The USFL will be back for a fourth season next spring and former Pitt Panthers safety Paris Ford will be back with them. 

The former Pitt star, Ford has re-signed with the New Jersey Generals after playing a breakout season for them in 2023. James Larsen of USFL Newsroom first reported the news. 

Ford, a two-time All-ACC selection in 2019 and 2020, left Pitt in the middle of the 2020 season, following a blowout loss to Notre Dame, and was not selected in the 2021 NFL Draft. He caught on with the Los Angeles Rams, signing as a free agent in May but was waived on August 23. 

He's spent the years since in the USFL with the Generals, who picked him in the fourth round of the 2022 USFL Supplemental Draft. He played sparingly in his first season with New Jersey, tallying an interception and eight tackles during the 2022 campaign. He broke out in 2023, appearing in nine games and starting seven while amassing 51 tackles and another interception. He was excellent in coverage

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STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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