Blake Corum

Blake Corum finished 2025 as the number 40 running back in total PPR scoring and the number 48 running back in PPR per game. That headline tells you everything: Corum was the clear backup behind Kyren Williams in a Rams offense that ranked second in the league in total offensive expected points added. He played all 17 games — but as the change-of-pace, short-yardage, and closer back, not the engine. The role was narrow, the touches were capped, and the ceiling was squeezed most weeks because Williams was getting fed and Matthew Stafford was throwing 46 touchdown passes. When Corum got volume or got near the goal line, he produced. The rest of the time? Deep-bench dart.

Now let's dig into the numbers, because the efficiency tells a more flattering story than the fantasy finish. Corum carried 145 times for 746 yards — a healthy 5.1 per carry on a Rams ground game averaging 4.6 as a team. His rushing yards over expected landed at plus 123, or plus 0.85 per attempt, ninth among qualified backs. That is genuinely good — he was creating yards the blocking didn't give him. His rushing expected points added came in at plus 15.9, a clear positive on the ground. The fantasy problem was volume and targets: just 14 targets all year and a 2 percent average target share, so no passing-down floor. He averaged 7.2 PPR per game in a textbook boom-or-bust pattern — ten games under 6 PPR, three above 13, including a 26.1-point explosion against the Cardinals, 14.1 at Carolina, and matching 13.1s against the Lions and Seahawks. Miss the week, get nothing. Hit it, get a league-winner.

The play that captures the whole season comes from that Arizona game in Week 14. Fourth quarter, 13:56 on the clock, Rams up 38 to 10, first and ten from the Arizona 48 — Corum takes the handoff, hits the right side, and he's gone. 48 yards, touchdown, plus 4.32 in expected points added on a single snap. That run is Corum's 2025 in miniature: when the script opened up and the carries came, the per-touch efficiency and the explosive burst were both real. The catch is those scripts only opened up a handful of times all year — and that's why a back averaging over five yards a carry finished outside the top 40 in PPR scoring.