The Bucs have sent a very clear, loud, public message to 2021 first-round draft pick Joe Tryon-Shoyinka this offseason.
That message? You better start getting sacks and be an impact player or you won’t be on the roster come March.
Despite JTS coming off his best season in 2023 with five sacks, the Bucs elected not to pick up his fifth-year option. That’s made 2024 a contract year for JTS.
With the drafting of Chris Braswell this spring in the second round, also an outside linebacker, Joe figures the Bucs will give JTS 4-6 games to demonstrate he belongs, that he finally has figured out how to rush the passer in the NFL.
If he puts up, say, just one sack in the first six games, Joe guesses the Bucs get Braswell on the field much more, likely as a starter.
Joe sure hopes for the Bucs’ sake, and for JTS as well, that the lightbulb finally flashes for the guy. Last year in the key season finale against Carolina with the Stinking Panthers still in the game, JTS made the second-best play of the game when he pulled off a Simeon Rice and had a clutch strip sack of Stinking Panthers quarterback Bryce Young.
The Bucs recovered and iced the game, clinching a playoff berth.
JTS followed that up by getting a sack the next weekend in the wild card win over Philadelphia but was virtually invisible against Detroit in the playoff round.
Joe is hoping beyond hope that JTS finally figured it out. If JTS still hasn’t figured it out, he has scant time to do so.
No holiday weekend for Joe Tryon-Shoyinka. Check out the pipes. Big season for JTS. Contract year. Video shot by his trainer John Reese (@Performance.Reese on Instagram). pic.twitter.com/OZ1aFzTdOe
— JoeBucsFan (@JoeBucsFan) July 5, 2024
