Craig, who is the brother of former Blade Chris Short started his football career at Pickering Town before Scarborough snapped him up. He later played for Neil Warnock's Nott's County as well as Derby and Everton until Rovers took him in August 1999 for £1,700,000.
Craig Short (left) and Ryan Giggs (right) of Manchester United battle in the Lancashire Derby.
His Ewood Park contract runs out in the summer and it is believed that Warnock will swoop for his former defender weather the Blades are in the Premiership or not.