Another day, another nugget about the Rams backfield. Should we know better than to believe anything we hear about these running backs with a month standing between us and the beginning of the regular season? Most likely – but we’re going to try and make sense of it anyway. Reports earlier this offseason indicated that Sean McVay liked rookie RB Blake Corum as a Kyren Williams ‘clone’ (i.e. if anything would happen to Williams, Corum could step right in and allow McVay to call the same offense). The fear for Kyren Williams’ detractors has been that Corum would establish a role for himself during the season and potentially eat into his workload – an issue exacerbated by the fact that Williams has a history of injuries that could allow Corum to capitalize on any time missed by the third-year back. Barshop’s exact words regarding the Rams’ intentions are that the team is ‘prioritizing’ keeping Kyren Williams fresh this season, which lends itself to the idea that Corum could get some more run by default in 2024 than originally imagined. Of course, take everything with a grain of salt in any discussion about a Sean McVay backfield; however, things don’t seem to be progressing in a way that suggests that Williams will be far and away the clear No. 1 in LA.