Hang onto your butts, but we’ll know what Blake Corum is going to do sooner rather than later.
The deadline for college players to enter the NFL draft or return to school is on Jan. 15, and apparently, the star Michigan football running back doesn’t have to wait quite that long. While fans (and media) are still uncertain to the status of head coach Jim Harbaugh, either Corum has a pretty good intimation he will be returning to Ann Arbor despite his dalliance with NFL teams (even after releasing a statement insisting his intention is to coach Michigan in 2023), or he doesn’t care what Harbaugh is going to do.
Famed Michigan alumnus and NFL Network host Rich Eisen will have Corum on his Roku Channel show on Monday at 2 p.m. EST, during which Corum will reveal his plans.
Join us today for a full NFL weekend recap and National Championship Game preview with @JOEL9ONE, plus @UMichFootball star @blake_corum joins us at 2pmET to announce his decision for 2023
Starts at noon ET@TheRokuChannel @WestwoodOne @SIRIUSXM @Audacy pic.twitter.com/FAIxLHRpu9
— Rich Eisen Show (@RichEisenShow) January 9, 2023
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The method is interesting because while Eisen is an NFL guy, his overall allegiance seems to be to Michigan football. Of course, it would be fitting to go on a show with an NFL-based entity to reveal his decision that he will enter the draft. However, generally, players don’t make TV appearances to announce they’re going pro, either.
On Sunday, Valiant Management launched the One More Year Fund with intentions to lure Corum and some of his teammates who are on the fence about returning or going pro back to Ann Arbor. While it seems unlikely that announcement made such an instant impact that less than 24 hours later Corum has a decision, name, image and likeness certainly is playing a factor, one way or the other in his decision and that of any other player who is still weighing their options.
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