Amarius Mims declares for 2024 NFL Draft, considered a top prospect
Georgia took on Florida State in the Orange Bowl Saturday without the services of talented right tackle Amarius Mims. The junior lineman was present but not dressed out, watching from the sidelines instead as the Bulldogs beat the Seminoles 63-3 at Hard Rock Stadium. Now, just a day later, Mims made known what was expected: he will forego his remaining eligibility and enter the 2024 NFL Draft.
ESPN’s Pete Thamel was the first to report the news.
Mims leaves Georgia with with eight starts under his belt. His first two game in the 2022 College Football Playoff where he filled in for an injured Warren McClendon. Mims then started the first three games of this season before suffering a high-ankle sprain against South Carolina.
After undergoing tight-rope surgery to help him return from that injury sooner, Mims missed the next six games with that injury and returned to the field against Ole Miss on November 11. He did not start that game but he did start the next three against Georgia Tech and Alabama to finish out his Georgia career. His night against the Crimson Tide did not last long, however, as he suffered a bruised ankle on the second series of the game and did not return.
The former five-star prospect signed with Georgia in 2021 and played in seven games as a freshman. After that season he entered the NCAA’s student-athlete transfer portal and appeared bound for Florida State before electing to stay put at Georgia. Mims served as part of UGA’s three-man tackle rotation in 2022, seeing all of his snaps at right tackle before taking over as the starter when McClendon went down in the SEC Championship game win over LSU.
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As a prospect Mims was rated as the nation’s No. 10 overall prospect in the 2021 class per the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that includes all four recruiting services. He was the No. 3 offensive tackle in America and the top prospect in Georgia.
Despite the short resume, Mims is viewed as a potential first-round pick. A number of mock drafts project him inside the top 20 of the 2024 NFL Draft. If he does indeed get selected in the first round, Mims will become the fifth Georgia lineman to be taken in round one since Kirby Smart became the Bulldogs’ head coach in 2016.
Mims joins defensive backs Javon Bullard and Kamari Lassiter in entering the draft. Several more decisions are to come, but the Bulldogs have picked up some momentum for 2024 with the announced returns of quarterback Carson Beck and linebacker Smael Mondon.
