Rome Odunze joined some sweet company in Bears history with TD vs. Raiders

The Chicago Bears' 25-24 win over the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday is firmly in the category of "wins you don't apologize for", but when it mattered most, multiple players stepped up. In recent years, it was the kind of game the Bears would lose.

Sunday's game was a homecoming for Las Vegas native Rome Odunze, and the Bears wide receiver was lined up to continue his great start to the season against a feeble Raiders' secondary. He didn't have a massive game, with four catches for 69 yards on eight targets, but he did extend his scoring streak to start the season as his connection with Caleb Williams continues to be very strong.

"On pace" stats are always somewhat dangerous territory his early, but even with that in mind Odunze is on pace for 85 receptions for 1,258 yards and 21 touchdowns this season. The second-year breakout that seemed set up for him to have, in a far more functional Bears' offense, has come to fruition thus far.

Rome Odunze's touchdown vs. Raiders put him in some sweet historical company

Odunze's third quarter touchdown against the Raiders gave the Bears a 16-14 lead, despite all the missed opportunities to appropriately cash in on turnovers in the first half of the game. It was also his fifth touchdown in four games this season, and extended his aforementioned scoring streak to start the season.

Not only is Odunze the only NFL player with a receiving touchdown in each of the first four games this season, the last Bears' player to score a touchdown in the each of the first four games of a season was a notable player in franchise history.

Walter Payton still sits second on the NFL's all-time rushing yardage list. Emmitt Smith had to hang on for two more seasons (15 seasons, to Payton's 13), as the shell of what he was in an Arizona Cardinals' uniform, to put about 1,600 yards between them. For some people, even beyond the hardest-core Bears' fans, "Sweetness" is the greatest and most complete running back the league has ever seen.

As teased by FOX Sports on Twitter/X, in light of Odunze's scoring streak to start the season, Payton scored a touchdown (rushing or receiving) in the first six games of the 1986 season.

That season was also the last of nine Pro Bowl campaigns for Payton, and he retired after the 1987 season.

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Doing something in Bears' history for the first time since Payton did it is automatically notable. When the team comes out of their bye week, Odunze can take it all the way and match the best offensive player in franchise history if he scores in two more consecutive games to start the season.