And then there was one

[BFritz21]

I have no clue what took so long, but Mims signed his deal!

Quote:Just in the knick of time, when it looked like we may be looking down the barrel of Andre Smith 2.0, the last domino fell. The Cincinnati Bengals have officially signed their first-round pick, Amarius Mims. He is the final rookie draft pick to sign his deal.

According to Spotrac, the contract is a four-year, $15.37 million deal, inked early on Monday morning. It includes a $7.99 million fifth-year option.

Mims is expected to be the “sixth-man” for the offensive line. While Trent Brown was away during minicamp, Mims took first-team snaps. Now that Brown will be available for training camp, which begins on Wednesday, Mims is expected to be a backup, should the need arise. Considering Brown’s injury history, the odds are good it will.

Then, in 2025, he takes the reins.

Now fans can breath a sign of relief this gloomy Monday morning as the team was able to jump over this last herdal before the unofficial official beginning of the season.

With the rookie scale and holdouts not being an issue anymore, I was getting kind of worried, but let's hope that it was just technicalities and there was no playing hard ball.

Hopefully he can get in some good work in the offseason so we're all set on the line behind Brown.

WHO-DEY!