TAMPA, Fla. — They’re back.

And they’re wearing orange and white.

When Tampa Bay takes the field against Detroit at 4:25 p.m. Sunday at Raymond James Stadium, the matchup will be a meeting of first-place teams as the Lions lead the NFC North and the Bucs remain in first in the NFC South.

The game is a meeting of former No. 1 picks Jared Goff (2016) and Baker Mayfield (2018), neither with the organization that drafted them.

But talk this week has centered on Tampa Bay breaking out its retro vintage creamsicle jerseys for the first time since 2012.

They wore the Florida orange jerseys, along with white pants, from 1976 to 1996 before adopting red and pewter as the team’s primary colors. The team wore creamsicle throwbacks once a season from 2009 to 2012, until the NFL's one-helmet policy ended the team's throwback use.

Meanwhile, Goff’s stellar play is one of the reasons the Lions (4-1) are aiming for their best start in more than a decade.

Mayfield’s improved performance with his fourth team in just over two years has the Buccaneers (3-1) off to a promising start, too.

Mayfield got some good news when the Bucs announced in their injury report late Friday that wide receiver Mike Evans fully participated in practice. Evans has been out since leaving the game against the New Orleans Saints in Week 4 with a hamstring injury.

Detroit is looking for a fourth straight win and Tampa Bay, coming off a break for its bye week, is trying to take four of five to begin a season for just the sixth time in franchise history.

The Lions are one of the league’s highest-scoring teams, averaging 29.6 points through Week 5 and riding a team-record stretch of 14 consecutive games with 20-plus points.

“He is the engine that makes it go over there ... not turning the ball over, throwing touchdowns, commanding the offense,” Bucs coach Todd Bowles said of Goff’s growth over the course of the quarterback’s career. “He was always very accurate. He is a competitor. He is playing great for them.”

Sounds a lot like way the Bucs have been describing Mayfield since the first pick of the 2018 draft landed with Tampa Bay, the latest stop in a journey that also includes stints with Cleveland, Carolina and the Rams.

With support from a defense that’s reverted to its old stingy ways, as well as Bowles’ commitment to an improved rushing attack, Mayfield has minimized costly mistakes and been extremely efficient running the offense.

“I think what they’re asking him to do, and the scheme really suits him well. They’re making a true commitment to the run. There’s a lot of boots that are involved, play-action pass, and when you’re playing good defense, too, man that’s right in his wheelhouse,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said. “He’s very competitive, like he’s always been, and he’s finding ways to make plays if it’s not there.”

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.