Blake Corum to Enter 2024 NFL Draft; RB Won CFP MVP with Michigan, Jim Harbaugh

Blake Corum is leaving college football on top.

After helping lead the Michigan Wolverines to a third straight Big Ten championship and a College Football Playoff national championship as the offensive MVP in the title game win over Washington, the star running back declared for the 2024 NFL draft on Sunday:

He isn't the only notable player from the offense who is departing for the NFL, as quarterback J.J. McCarthy announced he is doing the same on Sunday.

Corum and McCarthy will forever be Michigan legends.

The running back arrived at the program as a 4-star recruit in the class of 2020, per 247Sports' composite rankings. He was an afterthought contributor as a freshman but quickly established himself as a key piece of the offense as a sophomore with 952 rushing yards and 12 total touchdowns.

He made a jump to superstardom in 2022 with 1,463 rushing yards and 19 total touchdowns and then followed that up with 1,245 rushing yards and a stunning 27 touchdowns in 2023.

It wasn't just the individual production that cemented his place in Wolverines' lore.

During Corum's time as a primary focal point of the offense, Michigan won three straight games against Ohio State and flipped the rivalry after two consecutive decades of dominance from the Buckeyes. It also won the Big Ten three times in a row and took home its first-ever CFP national title and first national championship since the 1997 campaign.

The Wolverines are now right back on the short list of dominant college football programs after they had fallen behind Ohio State and others for years prior to the running back's arrival.

Now he turns his attention to the NFL draft.

B/R's NFL Scouting Department listed him as the 120th best overall player and seventh-best running back in its most recent big board of top prospects. However, Ohio State's TreVeyon Henderson was listed as the best running back and has since announced he is staying in school.

That gives Corum and the other top players at the position an opportunity to move up the board ahead of April's draft.