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Remember when the Bears and Commanders played on “Thursday Night Football” this time last year and we were all complaining about the Amazon matchups?

Time flies, little changes. 

What has changed since is both teams discovering they roster at least one offensive player with a pulse.

In Washington, that’s Brian Robinson Jr. 

There was some ambivalence about this backfield operation with Antonio Gibson in the mix, but it’s evident that Robinson is the preferred back in D.C.

He’s seeing an average of five more snaps, 12 more carries and has outperformed Gibson in every other rushing category. 

It seemed as if the other shoe dropped after the Commanders were squashed by the Bills 37-3 following a 2-0 start versus the likes of the Cardinals and Broncos.

The young Robinson still managed 70 yards on the ground in the annihilation; in fact, he ran at 7 yards per carry against the mighty Bills defense.

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He has scored in all three other games for a total of four — including in last week’s unexpected shootout loss to Philadelphia in overtime. 

Now he draws the pleasure of facing a Bears defense in utter disarray.

Their defensive coordinator resigned and they’re allowing 6.1 yards per offensive play in their 0-4 start.

Chicago just allowed 72 scrimmage yards to Denver rookie Jaleel McLaughlin in the wacky 31-28 loss. 

Given how this game will likely mimic that script along with Robinson’s workload uptick, he should have plenty of cardio Thursday. 

The play: Brian Robinson Jr. over 64.5 rushing yards (-115, BetMGM)