Early in the season there was a thought Julius Thomas was taking his breakout season of 2013 – 65 catches and 12 touchdowns — and making it look like a football hors d’oeuvre.

As he punished the Indianapolis Colts in the regular-season opener on the way to seven catches, 107 yards and three touchdowns in the second quarter of a Broncos win, Thomas looked to be headed toward his first 1,000-yard season and a place in the best-at-the-position conversation.

The Colts are again on the Broncos’ docket four months later, this time in a Divisional round playoff game, but this time Thomas is hoping to re-gain some of that September mojo.

“I’m just excited about playing in the playoffs,” Thomas said Monday. “It’s a great opportunity. It’s something that you can’t take for granted. To go out there and play and give your team a chance to possibly get back to the Super Bowl is great. I was able to have a lot of success against them in that first game. I would imagine they will do some things a little bit differently. So you can’t say, ‘I had a great game against them the first time. I’ll have three touchdowns on them again.’ You just never really know.”

via Jeff Legwold of ESPN.com