Michigan Football: Breaking down the top 4 Running backs

Blake Corum

247 Sports: MD 6, RB 12, NATL128

Rivals: MD 7, RB 8, NATL 104

ESPN: MD 5, RB 13, NATL120

Blake Corum is doing everything he’s supposed to do to make an impression on the staff and Jay Harbaugh is taking notice.

“The expectations are high,” Harbaugh said of Corum. “As an early enrollee, you find your way in the winter. You work out, you learn the playbook, you go through spring ball. You get to a certain point in there where you’re really not even a freshman anymore, just because you’ve been around and you’ve been exposed to everything. The cool thing about Blake is he totally embraces that. He loves that, and he’s obsessed with football.”

The Maryland product is an undersized back (5-foot-8, 193-pounds) that uses patience and quickness to find the holes exposed by his linemen. The same lineman that are coveted by college football teams across the country because Blake plays for Division I football factory St. Francis Academy. Blake and two of his teammates have already committed to Michigan football for next season with (hopefully) more to come as the UM staff cement their relationship with the powerhouse.

Blake and his football family tee off every year against the best of the best like IMG academy in Florida and Mater Dei in California, to name a couple. After being kicked out of their own conference in-state, St. Francis joined others in a nationwide competition that has seen it’s ups and downs for the Panthers.

Corum, however, has been a standout in a field of kids with offers from Alabama, Clemson, and other blue bloods. Back in December, Corum was named 2019-20 Gatorade Maryland Football Player of the Year for “not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field,” the press release said.