Rome Odunze explains how his postgame celebration with Ben Johnson went awry

After missing five games with a foot injury, Chicago Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze returned to action in the Wild Card Round against the Chicago Bears. For much of the game, basically until the most critical moment in the game, he was a non-factor on the stat sheet on his way to two catches for 44 yards.

Amid all the other attention-grabbing postgame moments from the Bears' win over the Green Bay Packers, from Ben Johnson's cold handshake with Packers head coach Matt LaFleur, to Caleb Williams using a cheese grater on the Amazon Prime Video postgame set to Johnson channeling every Bears' fan to start the postgame locker room celebration, this one may have slipped through the cracks a bit.

Of course, there is another, and way better if we're being honest, angle of the moment between Odunze and Johnson in the immediate chaos on the field after the game was over.

Johnson hit the ground, half-rolled, lost his hat, and never let go of his offensive play sheet the whole time. Only the head coach's pride appears to have been wounded by Odunze's inadvertent hit, making the moment hilarious.

Rome Odunze explains hilarious celebration moment with Ben Johnson

After the game, of course, Odunze was asked what happened from his perspective.

"I told him I'm sorry. I didn't mean to knock him down like that. I was just excited", Odunze said, via ESPN's Courtney Cronin. "I thought he was a little bit more athletic than I was. That's my bad. I got a little too excited, but no, that's my guy. I didn't mean to bring him down. I owe him something for that."

Odunze's two receptions in the game came on the Bears' second-to-last touchdown drive. Without his 27-yard catch on a fourth-and-eight with about five and a half minutes left, when he continued to run across the field to make himself available to Williams as the Bears' signal caller escaped to his left, the Bears' epic comeback would probably not have come to fruition.

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Odunze may feel like he owes Johnson for getting a little too excited in the immediate glow of a playoff win over the Bears' biggest rival. But it's fair to assume his clutch catches when it mattered the most on Saturday night were enough to give him some leeway, and easy forgiveness after accidentally knocking down his coach.