Brock Bowers, Amarius Mims sitting out of Pro Day due to injury

ATHENS, Ga. — A pair of Georgia’s top draft prospects are going to be sitting out of the action at UGA Pro Day on Wednesday. ESPN’s Jordan Reid reported that tight end Brock Bowers and offensive lineman Amarius Mims will not work out, each dealing with a hamstring injury. Instead, the two will workout for NFL teams on April 10th in a separate event.

Bowers and Mims were both at the NFL Combine and were either limited, or non-participants, in the on-field drills. Mims actually suffered the hamstring injury during his drills in Indianapolis, running a 5.07 in the 40-yard dash before calling it quits. Bowers on the other hand did not do any on-field activity.

Both Bowers and Mims are considered first round prospects. Mel Kiper has Bowers off the board at No. 10 to the New York Jets and Mims going to the Dallas Cowboys at No. 24 in his latest mock draft.

Sources: #Georgia TE Brock Bowers (hamstring) and OT Amarius Mims (hamstring) will not participate in Pro Day today, but both will have a separate workout for NFL teams on April 10th, source confirmed.

— Jordan Reid (@Jordan_Reid) March 13, 2024

Brock Bowers

Bowers burst onto the scene as a freshman out of Napa, Calif. back in 2021. In fact, his emergence came as soon as he got on campus that spring. He carried that momentum into the fall and led Georgia in receiving and established single-season records for Bulldog tight ends with 56 catches, 882 yards and 13 touchdowns. That touchdown catch total set a single-season record regardless of position. Bowers was named an All-American and National Freshman of the Year for his efforts.

Things didn’t slow down for Bowers in 2022 either. Once again, he earned All-American status with an outstanding sophomore season that saw him top his totals from the previous year. Bowers, who won the Mackey Award as the nation’s top tight end, hauled in 63 passes for 942 yards and seven touchdowns, all team-highs, while also adding 109 rushing yards and three touchdowns on the ground on just nine attempts. After posting over 100 yards receiving in four games as a freshman, he did so three times including two with more than 150 yards (a then-career-high 154 vs. Florida, 152 in National Championship Game against TCU).

Bowers’ third and final season at Georgia was hampered by injury as he missed three games and was limited in others. Still, he managed to lead the team in receiving – at least through 13 games – becoming the first Bulldog to three-peat as the team’s leading receiver since AJ Green (2008-10). Bowers had big outings against UAB and Kentucky sandwiching a career-high outing against Auburn that saw him go for 157 yards and the game-winning score.

Bowers suffered a high ankle sprain versus Vanderbilt that required surgery. He returned from that injury in just 26 days to play against Ole Miss, and his final catch in Sanford Stadium went for a touchdown against the Rebels. Bowers, in just 10 games, finished with the same number of catches (56) as he did in 15 contests during the 2021 season, totaling 714 yards and six scores while adding a rushing touchdown as well.

Amarius Mims

Mims took over the starting spot at right tackle for Georgia at the tail end of the 2022 season. After rotating in throughout the season, Mims got the nod with Warren McClendon battling injuries entering the College Football Playoffs. Then, he started the first three games of the 2023 campaign before suffering an injury of his own against South Carolina.

Tight-rope surgery on his left ankle sidelined Mims for six games before he returned to the field on November 11th for Georgia’s top-10 matchup with Ole Miss. He did not start that game but did start the next three against Tennessee, Georgia Tech and Alabama. However, in the SEC Championship Game, Mims went down with another ankle injury, this time to the right side, on the second series and did not return. He would later sit out of the Orange Bowl for injury precautionary reasons and declared for the NFL Draft short after.