ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Before Justin Forsett carried the ball in Gary Kubiak’s offense, Forsett never had more than 118 carries in a season, never rushed for more than 619 yards in a season and never scored more than four rushing touchdowns in a season.

But Forsett, as the Baltimore Ravens' starting running back in 2014 with Kubiak in his only year as the team’s offensive coordinator, had a career-best 235 carries for 1,266 rushing yards and eight touchdowns. So, when C.J. Anderson wanted a preview of what things might be like in the Denver Broncos' new offense with the newly-hired Kubiak in charge, he decided to ask Forsett at the Pro Bowl.

C.J. Anderson rushed for 648 of his 849 yards last season over the regular season's final six games. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

Anderson and Forsett both played at California-Berkeley -- they were not teammates at the school -- and it was Forsett who introduced Anderson during Pro Bowl week to Broncos' offensive coordinator Rick Dennison, who was with the Ravens’ staff coaching Team Carter that week in Phoenix. Anderson played for Team Irvin in his first Pro Bowl appearance.

Asked this week how much he had spoken to Forsett overall about Kubiak’s approach on offense and in the running game, Anderson said:

"A lot, we talked, we talked for a long time ... at the Pro Bowl he gave me some cues, and he called me maybe two weeks ago and asked me how things were going and the questions I had he helped me out with."

Kubiak had said earlier this offseason that Anderson, who rushed for 648 of his 849 yards last season over the regular season's final six games, should come into the team’s offseason workouts with the approach that he is the starter.

The Broncos, because they have a new coach, opened their offseason program on April 13. Anderson said Forsett’s view on the offense was helpful to prepare him for when the Broncos received the new scheme on their iPads. And that it was helpful to be able to bounce questions off the Ravens running back even before Anderson could meet with Broncos running backs coach Eric Studesville.

"Coaches to player -- Coach Studes is learning differently compared to how I’m learning, we’re all learning a different way," Anderson said. "But when you see it and learn it from player to player it can kind make a little more sense. Whatever works for you, that’s coach (Studesville) … he’s with that. Justin helped me a lot with that."

With Peyton Manning back at quarterback, Kubiak has promised a Broncos offense that will be more effective, and more committed to, running the ball in the coming season, to both protect Manning better and to force defenses to worry about some other things at times. How much more, however, remains to be seen, but Anderson, Montee Ball and Ronnie Hillman -- the Broncos’ top three running backs, at least at the moment -- figure to benefit like Forsett and so many other backs have in the offense before them through the years.

"It worked out for (Forsett)," Anderson said. "But people talk about how we’re going to run the ball more … I just think we’re going to be more balanced. At the end of the day we’ve got one of the best quarterback to ever play this game, we’ve got Demaryius (Thomas) on the outside if we can get that (contract) done … we’ve got Emmanuel (Sanders) on the outside., Cody (Latimer) is going to have a big year … we still have a lot of weapons on the outside so we can put the ball in the air and be just as effective as we were."