Amarius
Mims.
Amarius
Mims.
Georgia· 6'8"· 340 lb· 5.07s 40
"The purest projection in the 2024 class: eight career starts, a 6-8 frame that moves like a tight end, and pass-protection tape clean enough that teams graded the traits instead of the résumé."Pre-draft read
Mims was Georgia's right tackle when healthy, a 6-8, 340-pound blocker who played with the fluidity of a much smaller man. His pass sets were the calling card: balanced 45-degree and vertical kicks that got him to his landmark on time, long arms that met rushers early, and enough grip to end the rep once he latched.
In the run game he generated real movement on down blocks and was comfortable climbing to linebackers in space. The flaw was leverage — he played tall, narrowed his base through contact and could be moved off his spot late in reps. The signature was the recovery athleticism: even when beaten initially, he could redirect and wall the rusher past the pocket.
Gap and duo-heavy run schemes with vertical pass sets — a play-action offense that lets him use length in isolation rather than reaching defenders on the move every snap.
Year 1: immediate starter at right tackle with chip help against premier speed rushers. Ceiling: top-10 tackle who anchors one side of the line for a decade.
A wide-zone offense that asks him to reach-block 3-techniques on the backside every snap and win with lateral quickness from a two-point-heavy, high-tempo operation.
Needs a hands-on line coach; the traits were never the issue, the rep count was.
Amarius Mims 2024 NFL Draft Profile & Scouting Report
Trait-by-trait breakdown of his pass sets, length and the leverage issues that showed up in 2023.
Amarius Mims: Why the Georgia OT could be the best tackle in the 2024 draft
Case for the traits — kick slide, recovery athleticism and finishing power on limited tape.
Breakdown of Bengals draft pick Amarius Mims
Post-draft film look at how his skill set projected into Cincinnati's protection scheme.
Mims entered the 2024 class as the purest projection on the board: a five-star recruit with rare size, length and movement skill who had barely played. Everything an evaluator wanted physically was there, and almost none of the evidence a scout normally needs was.
He appeared in 29 games across three years at Georgia but made only eight starts — two in the 2022 playoff run and six more in 2023, when an ankle injury against South Carolina cost him most of the season and required surgery. In the roughly 700 snaps he did play, he was among the most efficient pass blockers in college football and never looked out of place, which is why the tape kept grading better than the résumé suggested. The flags were experience, technique on kick-out blocks, and whether a body that big could stay healthy over 17 games.
Boards split hard: some had him as a top-15 tackle worth the bet, others pushed him into the 20s because of the sample size. Cincinnati, needing a long-term right tackle to protect Joe Burrow, took the upside at 18 and accepted that the development would happen in games rather than practice.
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Rare frame and length
6-8 with 36-inch arms, the kind of build that lets him meet rushers before they can reach his chest plate.
- 02
Movement skill for the size
smooth in his kick sets and fluid redirecting, closer to a 315-pound tackle than a 340-pound one.
- 03
Grip and lock-out strength
once his hands land, he sustains and steers, and blocks stay finished rather than turning into scrambles.
- 04
Pass-protection efficiency
in limited 2023 snaps he was among the nation's best tackles by pressure rate allowed, with almost no clean losses.
- 05
Second-level work
climbs and tracks moving targets well, an asset in a run game that pulls and asks tackles to hit linebackers.
- 01
Experience
eight career starts total; his rush-recognition and hand timing were built on a sample most first-round tackles double by their sophomore year.
- 02
Pad level
plays upright and narrows his base through contact, which lets defenders work under him and reset the line of scrimmage.
- 03
Oversets and inside counters
stutters and hesitation moves get him drifting, leaving a soft inside shoulder and quick losses across his face.
- 04
Durability
the 2023 ankle injury required surgery and cost him most of the season, a real question for a 340-pound frame over a full NFL year.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.07sp50
- Vertical
- 25.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 111inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Georgia | 8 |
| 2022 | Georgia | 14 |
| 2023 | Georgia | 7 |
| Career | — | 29 |
Verified against Georgia's official player bio (2021-2023); season games sum to the 29 career games listed by both Georgia and Cincinnati. Offensive line: no box-score stats tracked.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Honors
- Preseason first-team All-SEC (2023)
- Two-time national champion (2021, 2022 seasons)
- Consensus five-star recruit (2021 class)
Solid, long-term starting right tackle who plays at a high level when available and never becomes the problem up front.
The upside if the mass, length and movement come together — a mountain at tackle who erases edge rushers when technique is clean.
Athletic tackle who never converts traits into strength at the point and settles into a swing-tackle role.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Cincinnati got exactly the arc it drafted. Mims stepped in as the rookie starter at right tackle, played 15 games with 13 starts in 2024 and had the expected ups and downs — flashes of pass-protection dominance mixed with the leverage and hand-timing lapses that showed up at Georgia. In 2025 he started all 17 games and took 94.6 percent of the offensive snaps, grading out as a solid mid-tier NFL tackle and drawing just one holding penalty across his first two seasons, which is remarkable discipline for a player this inexperienced.
In hindsight the pick reads as a sound bet rather than a home run so far. Mims has become what Cincinnati needed most — a durable, every-down right tackle for a team that had cycled through options in front of Joe Burrow — but the All-Pro ceiling people attached to the frame hasn't shown up yet, and the tall pad level still caps him against powerful interior-to-edge rushers. The experience concern proved real in the sense that his development curve is slower than a four-year college starter's, not in the sense that he couldn't play.
Data note: Verified against Georgia's official player bio (2021-2023); season games sum to the 29 career games listed by both Georgia and Cincinnati. Offensive line: no box-score stats tracked.