Former Bucs first round pick closes the book on his NFL career
The Bucs’ first pick after Super Bowl LV is heading for retirement.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ first draft pick after winning the Super Bowl in February 2021 is calling it a career.
Per multiple outlets, former Bucs edge rusher Joe Tryon-Shoyinka retired, as the Philadelphia Eagles put him on the reserve/retired list.
Former Bucs first round pick Joe Tryon-Shoyinka retiring from the NFL
The 6-5, 260-pound Tryon-Shoyinka was a player who seemed to ooze potential coming out of the University of Washington after the 2020 season. Bucs general manager Jason Licht agreed, selecting the former Huskies edge rusher with the final pick in the first round.
Unfortunately, the light bulb never came on for him in Tampa. In five years, with four of them in Tampa, he generated just 15.0 total sacks. He tabbed four in each of his first two seasons and a career-best five in 2023.
The Bucs declined to pick up his fifth-year option during the 2024 offseason, and after a two-sack campaign in 15 games with 11 starts, the Bucs let him walk in free agency after the 2024 season. He split the 2025 season between Cleveland and Chicago, but he did not register a sack in eight games with each team.
The Bucs’ 2021 draft class has no players on the current roster. Kyle Trask, Robert Hainsey, Jaelon Darden, KJ Britt, CJ Wilcox, and Grant Stuard made up the rest of the class after Tryon-Shoyinka. Suffice to say, it was one of the most underwhelming classes of Licht’s tenure.