Cincinnati Bengals rookie Amarius Mims doesn’t want to hear any “injury-prone” chatter.
Mims, currently on the shelf with a pec strain, has heard the rumblings online about his injury history and addressed them after a recent training camp practice.
“I had a knee my freshman year of high school and an ankle last year,” Mims said, according to Dan Hoard. “That’s all I’ve had. I don’t know where that narrative came from.”
Conventional outside draft analysis suggested a variety of factors caused Mims to fall down the board on draft day. A big one was his lack of pure starts at Georgia, in part due to injuries that held him off the field.
Still, the “fall” part of that analysis is correct, at least, because Mims was putting on a show at training camp before the injury, seemingly positioning himself to start at right tackle no matter what the veteran Trent Brown showed.
For Mims, Bengals coach Zac Taylor said the injury could keep him out weeks, though wouldn’t go into specifics beyond that. Brown has been cleared and back on the field since while repping with the first team.
Narratives aside, the focus now turns to how quickly Mims can get back from a pesky type of injury, especially for offensive linemen — and whether the team has seen enough to put him out there in front of Joe Burrow in Week 1 if he’s ready.
