Ben Johnson and the Chicago Bears are adding another player to their backfield in Salvon Ahmed, a seventh-year veteran who last played for the Miami Dolphins. He has not seen the field during the regular season in some time.
Still, Ahmed is reuniting with former Dolphins running backs coach Eric Studesville.
Studesville, whom the Bears hired to replace Eric Bieniemy (Kansas City Chiefs) this offseason, was in the same role in Miami while the running back was there from 2020 through 2024.
Salvon Ahmed Signs With Bears Late in Free Agency
Bears Reunite RB Coach With Salvon Ahmed
“Sources: The #Bears are signing former Dolphins and Colts RB Salvon Ahmed,” Fox Sports’ Jordan Schultz reported in a post on X on May 20. “Ahmed suffered a serious and gruesome ankle injury on a hip-drop tackle during practice last year and has worked hard to get back. He now gets this opportunity in Chicago.”
Ahmed, who turns 28 in December, joins the Bears after spending the last season-plus with the Indianapolis Colts. He entered the league as an undrafted free agent with the San Francisco 49ers in 2020 and has also spent time with the Denver Broncos.
Ahmed has rushed for 593 yards and 6 touchdowns on 163 carries in his career.
He has not played in a regular-season contest since Week 11 of the 2023 campaign while with the Dolphins.
He joins a Bears running back room that produced the NFL’s third-best rushing yards during the 2025 regular season. Headlined by D’Andre Swift, the group also includes former Bears draft picks Kyle Monangai and Roschon Johnson.
It also includes former Las Vegas Raiders draft pick Brittain Brown.
The Bears have former undrafted free agents Deion Hankins (2025) and Coleman Bennett (2025), too, putting a deep group around Ahmed.
He will have a steep hill to climb to make the final roster. The Bears will likely keep three backs active on game days with another one or two on their practice squad. That means at least two members of the current group could be elsewhere by Week 1.
For what it is worth, Swift is coming off a career year, and Monangai showed well as a rookie.
Johnson is a holdover, but he has more team equity than Brown, who ran hard in his opportunities last season, or Hankins and Coleman.
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