Blake Corum (RB, Los Angeles Rams) — 2026 fantasy outlook, updated Sep 11, 2026.
In 2025, Blake Corum finished RB37 at 7.0 Half-PPR points per game (118.2 total) across 17 games.
Based on verified 2025 play-by-play data (nflverse); Half-PPR scoring.
Corum took four straight handoffs after Quentin Lake's interception — five, ten, six and thirteen yards, from the Los Angeles thirty-one to the San Francisco thirty-five — and the drive ended three plays later on Matthew Stafford's interception. He finished with ten carries for fifty-four yards, no targets, one carry fewer than Kyren Williams, in a 27–7 loss to the 49ers in Melbourne.
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- Camp · Aug 31, 2026
Blake Corum Camp Update — August 31: Survived to a Three-Man Backfield
Corum made the initial fifty-three, and the backfield around him went from six-plus to three: Jarquez Hunter was traded to Miami and Dean Connors and Jordan Waters were cut. The Corum-Williams split, the question that defines his value, closed the preseason with the assigned-carry count still at zero.
- Camp · Aug 23, 2026
Blake Corum Camp Update — August 23: The Backfield Script Skipped Him Again
The Rams shut out the Saints thirty-four to nothing, and the rushing story belonged to Jarquez Hunter and Stetson Bennett's legs. Another week, another game script that told us nothing about the Corum-Williams split, with one preseason game left before cut day.
- Camp · Aug 16, 2026
Blake Corum Camp Update — August 16: Leaner, Faster, and Still Waiting for the Promotion
Corum worked as the featured back in the Rams' final open practice and reported to camp a lot leaner. The promotion we described in June is louder than ever — and still unannounced.
- 2026 Preview
Blake Corum 2026 Season Preview — what repeats, what doesn't
WATCHLIST — RB35 prices a promotion the Rams keep hinting at but never announced; we won't underwrite unassigned carries.
Show notes & transcript
Blake Corum is being drafted at pick 100 as the 30-fifth running back — nine spots ahead of what he actually produced last year. The gap is a promotion the Rams have hinted at and never announced.
What he produced was real, just modest: 17 games, a hundred 45 carries, 746 yards — 5.1 a carry — six touchdowns, and seven-point-oh Half-PPR points a game, which ranked 40-fourth among regular backs. Eight catches all season. That last number matters in this format: in Half-PPR, a back who doesn't catch passes needs volume or touchdowns to pay his price, and last year he split both with Kyren Williams on a 12-five wild-card team. The receiving role was nearly nonexistent — eight catches on 14 targets, under one look a game — so his hundred 18 total Half-PPR points, 30-seventh at the position, came almost entirely on the ground.
The career arc is short and pointed up: from two Half-PPR points a game as a rookie to seven in year two, on essentially identical usage share behind the same starter. Year three is where second-round backs either take a room or settle into a rotation. The efficiency case travels, though: 5.1 a carry over a hundred 45 carries isn't a small-sample trick.
The pattern check comes back quiet, and we'll say so plainly. His touchdown share was point-two-nine-five — sitting just under the point-two-nine-eight line where the running back TD-fade cohort starts, the one that gives back three points a game the next season, n of 72. That fade replicates in both halves of the decade — −2.9 before 20-21, −3.3 since — which is why we take its threshold seriously enough to report a near-miss. Close, but under: the fade doesn't fire, and we don't round cohorts up to manufacture a take. Nothing else fires either — no aging risk in year three, no injury discount, and no validated pattern that converts spring buzz into carries. When the library is silent, the verdict tier exists for exactly this.
The situation is why the market is paying early. Kyren Williams is still the starter and got extended last August — three years, 33 million, 23 guaranteed, per CBS Sports — but the team's own June position preview framed this backfield as a rotation for the third straight year, and Los Angeles reporting has openly floated a move toward an even split, per the Rams' site and Roundtable in June. The club's 20 25 breakout feature credited Corum with about 30 percent of the snaps last season — their number, not ours. No running back was drafted in April. Sean McVay is back for year 10 with Nate Scheelhaase promoted to coordinator, per the team site. Jarquez Hunter, last year's fourth-rounder, is the third name in the room, per Turf Show Times, and camp opens July 20-seventh.
The price: pick 100 pays RB35 for a back whose scoreboard said RB44 — you're buying the role change in advance. RB35 is a flex price, and a flex season at his efficiency needs either the split to move or the touchdown rate to hold. Our verdict: watchlist. We can't underwrite carries that haven't been assigned, and we won't fade a situation this plausible either — that's the honest middle. The caveat, spoken: if the split really does move toward 50-50, this price is roughly fair, and the touchdown role could make it cheap.
Watch the preseason backfield script — who opens drives two and three — and whether his receiving usage grows past a courtesy. Preseason rotation scripts are staff messaging — the cheapest honest signal a drafter gets. If he's on your roster, this show covers all of it — every player, every week, all season.
- 2025 Review
Blake Corum 2025 Season in Review
Show notes & transcript
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 — 10 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 10 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.
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