CINCINNATI – Something lost between Joe Burrow’s career-high five touchdown passes and Trey Hendrickson’s four sacks on Sunday at the Cincinnati Bengals. 41-24 victory against Las Vegas Raiders It was another achievement.

The number is smaller, but no less significant.

bengali Rookie right tackle Amarius Mims helped keep Raiders Pro Bowl running back Maxx Crosby without a sack.

Center Ted Karras took the opportunity to give Mims a new nickname: “The King of Exclusion.”

“I’m just a regular guy,” Mims said with his typical “aww-shucks” expression. “A moment to last. A moment to happen again.”

Crosby lined up on Mims’ side of the offensive line on 67 of his 74 snaps Sunday. Mims held him without a sack, marking just the third time in Crosby’s last 10 games that has happened.

Crosby’s three tackles tied his season-low, although he tied his season-high with three quarterback hits on Joe Burrow, and a fourth that didn’t count but cost him an unnecessary roughness penalty and some regret on Karras’ part.

“One of the best players in the league,” Mims said of Crosby. “Maxx is a man of many tricks. He has many moves in his arsenal. This week we were just patient, we didn’t try to play outside my comfort zone.

Mims credited teammate Orlando Brown Jr. for helping him prepare for Crosby in the days leading up to the game.

“He was talking to me all week,” Mims said. “Before practice, after practice, in meetings, here in the locker room. “He is a great teammate.”

Brown had more time than usual to work with Mims because he didn’t practice all week due to a knee injury he originally suffered on Oct. 27 in Cleveland and then aggravated last week against Philadelphia.

The injury forced Brown to miss the first game of his career, but he continued to mentor Mims on the sideline throughout the game.

“The biggest thing is that in this league, too often at the tackle position, people are quick to offer their game to others,” Brown said. “Maxx is unique and special in many different ways.

“But (Mims) is the most talented guy in our room,” Brown said. “It has all the capacity and intangibles in the world. So my biggest advice to him was to be yourself. You are playing big, winning with excellent body position and footwork. Trust your eyes and what you’re seeing, get off center and put yourself in a great position to be able to redirect and react to any kind of different attacks or unique things he throws at you.”

While Mims tried to downplay the importance of blanking an elite pass rusher, Brown said he knows that’s the kind of performance that can really jump-start a young career.

Because he has lived it.

In his third career start, he faced Pittsburgh. TJ Watt and kept him under pressure, hitless and with a 3 percent win rate.

“I was pretty much one-on-one the whole game,” Brown said. “He pushed me, but overall, that was the first game for me where I thought, ‘Okay, I have a chance here.'”

And just as will be the case for Mims when he sees Baltimore’s Nnamdi Madubuike, the Chargers’ Joey Bosa, Watt and Dallas’ Micah Parsons in the next four games, Brown said the key is using confidence to repeat the performance.

A few weeks after blanking Watt, Brown faced Kansas City’s Dee Ford in the midst of his career-high 13-sack season.

Baltimore’s coaches put Brown in a lot of true one-on-one situations with Ford, and Brown subjected him to two pressures and no sacks.

Although Brown did not play Sunday against the Raiders, his experience was on display, lived through Mims.

“This week I had a good plan and great training from Orlando,” Mims said. “He was telling me that it will be a game of patience. Maxx is a man of many tricks. He had many moves in his arsenal. This week we were just patient, we just played.

“I watched a lot of movies about that man, got advice from Orlando and tried to do the best I could.”

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