Blake Corum

From 58 rookie carries to a 171-carry, 865-yard year-2 breakout in LA.

Corum's rookie year (2024) was a depth-chart waiting room — 58 carries for 207 yards (3.57 YPC), 0 TDs. Year 2 flipped: 171 carries, 865 rushing yards, 6 TDs at 5.06 YPC — and that's just regular-season-plus-playoffs in the 2025 game log.

The 1.5-yard jump in YPC between years is the part that should make Rams fans the most optimistic — that's a Corum who's running through gaps, not just into them.

128 yards and 2 TDs in Week 14 — the career-best game of his short career.

Week 14 vs Arizona: 12 carries, 128 rushing yards, 2 TDs — a 10.7 YPC game, and his first multi-TD outing in the NFL. Three weeks later, Week 15 at Detroit produced another 71-yard, 1-TD game on 11 carries.

The Weeks 13-16 stretch — 44 carries, 328 rushing yards, 5 TDs, 7.45 YPC — was the case for Corum as a real Rams workhorse, not just a complement to Kyren Williams.

5.14 YPC in 2025 regular season — top-5 efficiency among RBs with 100+ carries.

Corum's 5.14 yards per carry in the 2025 regular season puts him in elite RB company — top-5 among all RBs with 100+ carries, ahead of Jonathan Taylor (4.91), Kyren Williams (4.83), and Saquon Barkley (4.07). The league average among RBs was 4.35 YPC. He didn't have a single outlier game inflating the number: 9 regular-season games at 40+ rushing yards keep the average honest.

6 rushing TDs in 2025 — first NFL touchdown didn't come until his second season.

All 6 of Corum's career TDs through two seasons came in 2025. Four of them landed in a four-week stretch (Weeks 13-16) — exactly the period when LA's offense leaned into him as the change-of-pace runner with finishing ability.

The Week 2 TD vs Tennessee on 5 carries for 44 yards was the first NFL score of his career — it took 17 career games to get on the board.

Year-1 to Year-2: carries up 3x, yards up 4.2x, YPC up 42%.

Almost every counting stat moved the right way — but the YPC jump from 3.57 to 5.06 (3.57 regular-season 2024; 5.06 across all 20 games including five playoff games in 2025) is the development indicator. Volume increases are usually paired with efficiency dips for second-year RBs; Corum did the opposite. Receiving role is still developing (13 catches for 73 yards across all 20 games), but trending upward.

2 negative-yardage games in 2024 — 0 in 2025.

Corum's 2024 rookie line included 2 games with negative rushing yardage — Week 9 (-1 yard on 1 carry) and Week 17 (-4 yards on 3 carries) — plus several others under 10 yards. In 2025, with a real workload and a real role, zero games went negative on the ground — the floor was a single 10-yard outing vs Seattle in Week 11 (8 carries).

That shift — from unreliable depth piece to consistent positive-yardage RB — is the thing that separates a depth piece from a real rotational starter. Every game in 2025 produced at least 2 rushing yards.