Amarius Mims, the Cincinnati Bengals’ right tackle and first-round pick in last year’s NFL Draft, could not hold back his excitement when another George Bulldog joined his team this offseason.<\/p>\n
In the 2025 Draft, Cincy selected offensive guard Dylan Fairchild in the third round. After the life-changing phone call, he quickly got a FaceTime call from Mims, his former teammate who had grown close to during their time together in Athens.<\/p>\n
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“It was wild,” Mims said to WCPO\u00a0Marshall Kramsky<\/a> after seeing the Bengals draft Fairchild.<\/p>\n He had been waiting anxiously to see if Cincinnati would take him, and the wait paid off once he was able to give him a call.<\/p>\n “I was like, ‘okay maybe there’s a chance we can get this teammate’ … Coach had already talked about going guard … then I FaceTime him. He’s cheesin’, and I’m cheesin’, and I’m like ‘aw snap!’<\/p>\n “It’s one of the best feelings, man … For me, boom. It’s somebody I’ve been knowing since my freshman year of college … I’m very excited and happy to see my guy.”<\/p>\n Mims may be more excited put the rest of the Bengals’ roster onto the nickname for Fairchild that he coined while at Georgia: Pickle.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Nothing proves a strong brotherhood bond quite like a nickname. Mims and Fairchild were both members of Georgia’s 2021 recruiting class and they built a special relationship on and off the field. Their time spent in dining halls and dorm rooms went a long way in growing their friendship outside of just football.<\/p>\n “I try to think of nicknames,” Mims said. “So, like Brock Bowers for example. I called him Stanley. For some odd reason he looks like a Stanley to me.<\/p>\n “Like Dylan. We got to find a name for Dylan. I’m just sitting there thinking his name Dylan, I was like, ‘Pickle D’ so I was like, yep. Everybody loved it. So it stuck. So we just dropped the D and we just called him ‘Pickle.’<\/p>\n May it’s short for “dill”, like if Dylan’s name could be shortened? But we don’t know for sure – and maybe it’s best not to.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Regardless, it’s here to stay in Cincinnati, just like it has stuck with friends at Georgia.<\/p>\n “Everybody on the o-line still to this day, like that, from my sophomore year to now, everybody like in that online group still call him Pickle,” Mims joked.<\/p>\n As “Pickle” and the rest of the Bengals’ rookies prepare for minicamp this weekend, Mims is confident the addition of Fairchild will help the team’s camaraderie this season.<\/p>\n “We got a lot of chemistry. I feel like that’s good for the room. Just two guys already who has a little chemistry coming into the league. I feel like that helps a little bit.”<\/p>\n Related: Bengals Get Bad News on Hendrickson Holdout<\/a><\/p>\n