Why mess with a good thing? If Michigan running back Blake Corum gets a call from the Baltimore Ravens during the upcoming NFL Draft, it’ll be an indirect homecoming in more ways than one. For example, Corum burst onto the national scene as The Baltimore Sun’s offensive player of the year from Saint Frances Academy, which sits 2.5 miles from M&T Bank Stadium. The newly crowned collegiate national champion will also know what to expect from his potential head coach John Harbaugh, having played for the Super Bowl champion’s brother Jim in Ann Arbor.
Corum would be more than happy to continue working under “Coach Harbaugh,” entertaining the possibility when he spoke at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on Friday.
It’d be great. I believe they’re probably similar in ways,” Corum said, per Clifton Brown of the Ravens’ official site. “You know how the Harbaughs are: great people, down to earth, good coaches, players’ coaches. If I got the chance to play for Coach John Harbaugh, that’d be great.” An endorsement of Harbaugh is perhaps music to the ears of Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta, who spent his own availability expressing a desire to keep rolling with a multi-pronged rushing room. Corum is expected to be one of the top running backs taken after showcasing dual-threat potential as a Wolverine, a skillset that landed him All-American honors and the MVP Award in the national title game win over Washington in January. But with the running back position’s value called into question in recent years, Corum is more than content to go with the flow.
“Doing whatever I can to win, bringing that mindset whether I’ve got to play special teams, get five carries a game, 20 carries,” Corum said when asked about what he brings to the professional level. “Whatever we need to win a Super Bowl, that’s what I’m bringing to the team.” Related: DeCosta: Ravens Need ‘More Than Two’ RBs Corum could perhaps use the rest after shouldering a good bit of the Wolverines’ championship prospects: the 61 touchdowns he scored from scrimmage in four seasons in Ann Arbor are a program record and he put in 27 on the ground alone en route to victory. One of the last was the game-winning overtime score in the Rose Bowl Game against Alabama, one that clinched Michigan’s spot in the final stanza.
