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“Joe is a very unique player,” Bowles said. “He’s not going to be a go-around-the-corner, Shaq-type guy. Joe can move all across the line of scrimmage and help us in a lot of things. He’s our linebacker, he’s our defensive end, he’s our three-tech, he’s our part-time nickel, he’s our part-time inside ‘backer. He can come from a lot of areas, so he has a lot of jobs. He’s one of those chess pieces that I talk about.”

Todd Bowles also used him as a blitzing stand-up inside linebacker on 25 snaps, and Tryon-Shoyinka even played eight snaps in coverage in the slot.

Bowles used Tryon-Shoyinka’s athletic ability to drop in coverage in zone blitzes and zone calls even more that season. Tryon-Shoyinka had 113 coverage snaps that year, which was nearly double from his rookie year.

After notching four sacks as a rookie, the Washington product plateaued at four sacks again in 2022 despite playing 869 snaps as an edge rusher in his first full season as a starter. Bowles reduced his workload playing other positions that year. JTS would primarily line up at outside linebacker during that season, and Bowles used him as a blitzing inside linebacker on just nine snaps and with only six reps in the slot.

When that didn’t work, Bowles went back to using Tryon-Shoyinka’s versatility last season. JTS played 597 snaps along the defensive line, mostly outside (587 snaps). But he did see 17 snaps at inside linebacker and 11 snaps at nickel cornerback – both were double the amount of snaps at those positions from the previous year.

Is Okoronkwo being released

Coming off career lows in sacks (2) and tackles (15).

Is Okoronkwo being released with this signing? It would create a little extra cap space with a post June 1st cut designation.

Well, a team can only have two and one was already used. So we'll see.

Actually, the Browns have already used both on Thornhill and recently on Tomlinson that take effect tomorrow.