Buccaneers’ Baker Mayfield, Emeka Egbuka proceed making historical past

2) Bucs have gem pairing in Mayfield-Egbuka

The Buccaneers have scored 135 factors and allowed 132 factors by means of 5 video games in 2025. They have trailed within the remaining minute of the fourth quarter in all 5 video games. They are 4-1 and sit alone atop the NFC South.

The 2025 Buccaneers are the primary crew in NFL historical past to win 4 of their first 5 video games of a season and have the entire victories come by three or fewer factors. They are additionally the primary crew to win 4 of their first 5 video games in a season after trailing in each contest with underneath one minute left in regulation.

Baker Mayfield, now with a career-high and league-best 4 fourth-quarter comebacks underneath his belt in 2025, was 29-for-33 passing for 379 yards and two touchdowns within the Week 5 win over the Seattle Seahawks. He grew to become simply the third quarterback with not less than 375 passing yards and fewer than 5 incompletions in a single recreation, becoming a member of Kurt Warner and Peyton Manning, who each did so in a playoff recreation.

Emeka Egbuka torched the short-handed Seahawks protection for 163 yards and a landing within the Buccaneers win. Egbuka grew to become the primary and solely rookie with not less than 25 receptions and 5 receiving touchdowns in his first 5 profession video games. The solely different rookies within the final 40 seasons with not less than 400 receiving yards (Egbuka has 445) and 5 receiving touchdowns of their first 5 video games had been Ja’Marr Chase (2021), Terry McLaurin (2019) and Randy Moss (1998).

Egbuka additionally joined Mike Evans as the one rookies in Buccaneers historical past with 100-plus receiving yards in consecutive video games.