The Facts: Call him “Fit Rob.” For Kelley, the old “Fat Rob” is gone, melted away. The nickname, which he said he earned “eating a lot of food” before his senior year at Tulane, was once inscribed on his backpack by his running backs coach. At the end of his senior year, Kelley said he weighed 249 pounds, but when Washington signed him as an undrafted free agent in 2016, he was listed at 228. Now he’s slimmed down again. “It comes with the change within,” he said Thursday. “I’m lighter, I’m faster. ... I’m 221 pounds.”

Diehards Line: Last season, Kelley struggled with injuries but started all seven games he appeared in and totaled 194 yards on 62 carries with three touchdowns. Against Minnesota in November, Kelley sprained his medial collateral ligament in his knee and aggravated an already sprained ankle, causing him to miss the rest of the season. Now, he’s healthy and back with a new look. But of course, the bottom line remains unchanged: To succeed, Kelley needs to stay on the field. His injury history cannot be a predictor of his present. On Thursday, he took the lion’s share of the first-team reps and he does not want to relinquish them to others in the team’s loaded running back room. Along with Kelley, the Redskins have Samaje Perine, the 2017 fourth-rounder out of Oklahoma; Chris Thompson, who has toted 60-plus carries for the team the last two seasons; Byron Marshall, who the team signed last year off Philadelphia’s practice squad; and Derrius Guice, this year’s second-round pick from LSU. The Redskins also have two other backs, Martez Carter and Kapri Bibbs, trying to make the roster. HC Jay Gruden was noncommittal when asked which running back would garner the majority of the carries. He said “that’s a great question” and said the team still needs to settle on “one, one and a half. ... Or two guys” to get the bulk of the carries, and that the team would probably only dress three on game day. ... We're still betting on Guice for that lead role, but the situation bears watching.