Newest member of the Bears' defensive front showed flashes that he could fill the unit's biggest void in limited work on Monday night

The Chicago Bears suffered another major blow out in Week 15 against the Minnesota Vikings on Monday Night Football but overall it was a much improved effort from the defense despite the final score of the game.

While the result is still the result, the Bears defense did have one silver lining and might have found a new defensive contributor for the rest of the season that was plucked from a division rival earlier in the week.

Last Thursday, the Bears signed defensive tackle Jonathan Ford off the Green Bay Packers' practice squad and it didn't take long to get him involved in the game plan.

Against the Vikings on Monday, Ford played 25 defensive snaps rotating on the interior of the defensive line. Of those 25 snaps, the Vikings ran the ball on 13 times, which shows Ford's true role on this Bears' defense.

At 6'5, 338 pounds, Ford has the exact size the Bears were looking for to fill the void on the front as a run stuffer that opened up following Andrew Billings' season-ending injury. In that limited role, Ford looked really impressive finishing the game with four tackles and one tackle for a loss.

On the 13 run plays with Ford in the game, the Vikings went backwards on four of them (two of which Ford was in on the tackle). Even on Aaron Jones' goal line touchdown in the third quarter, the Vikings ran to the right, away from Ford.