2) Bucs find gem pairing with Mayfield, Egbuka
The Buccaneers have scored 135 points and allowed 132 points through five games in 2025. They have trailed in the final minute of the fourth quarter in all five games. They are 4-1 and sit comfortably atop the NFC South.
The 2025 Buccaneers are the first team in NFL history to win four of their first five games of a season and have all of them decided by a field goal (three or fewer points). They are also the first team to win four of their first five games in a season in which they trailed with under one minute left in regulation.
Baker Mayfield, now with a career-high and league-best four fourth-quarter comebacks under his belt in 2025, was 29 for 33 passing for 379 yards and two touchdowns in the Week 5 win over the Seattle Seahawks. He became just the third quarterback with at least 375 passing yards and fewer than five incompletions in a single game, joining Kurt Warner and Peyton Manning who both did so in a playoff game.
Emeka Egbuka torched the short-handed Seahawks defense for 163 yards and a touchdown in the Buccaneers win. Egbuka became the first and only rookie with at least 25 receptions and five receiving touchdowns in his first five career games. The only other rookies in the last 40 seasons with at least 400 receiving yards and five receiving touchdowns in their first five games were Ja’Marr Chase (2021), Terry McLaurin (2019) and Randy Moss (1998).
Egbuka also joined Mike Evans as the only rookies in Buccaneers history with 100-plus receiving yards in consecutive games.