#nosoulshaveperished.”

That hashtag was an amusing allusion to a question Odunze had been asked during his news conference at the scouting combine in March.

"If you were on a flight that was about to crash and you were asked to land the plane safely, could you do it?"

“Absolutely not!” Odunze responded. “We are going down. All souls have perished!”

For Williams and Odunze, their flight together into Detroit may have been happenstance. But the flight out Friday — on the Bears’ private jet en route to Chicago Executive Airport — was by design with Poles drafting both players through a vision to turn them loose inside an offense that has been adding blue-chip talent for the past two offseasons.

Odunze, naturally, was asked at Halas Hall how the Friday morning flight went.

“It was great,” he said with a laugh. “I flew us. So I got us right, got us here safely.”

Instant impact

Perhaps it’s fitting that the air travels of Williams and Odunze this week are set up to become a thing of legend in Chicago. The two will now hold a heavy responsibility in enlivening the air attack of the Bears offense with designs on doing things that have never been done in Chicago before.

The franchise’s single-season passing yards record (3,838) is owned by Erik Kramer. Still. From way back in 1995.

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