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Tryon-Shoyinka's Glorious NFL Weekend: First Start, Sacks, Brady Handshake

Pro football life keeps getting better and better for one-time Husky edge rusher.
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Tryon-Shoyinka's Glorious NFL Weekend: First Start, Sacks, Brady Handshake
Tryon-Shoyinka's Glorious NFL Weekend: First Start, Sacks, Brady Handshake

Joe Tryon-Shoyinka, what have you done for us lately?

Well, plenty this past weekend.

The former University of Washington edge rusher made his first NFL start for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, picked up his first two pro sacks against New England on a Sunday Night Football broadcast for the entire country to see and capped the evening with a viral photo of him and Tom Brady sharing a celebratory moment.

It's hard to remember another Husky alum who, four outings into his NFL career, has acclimated so well to the pro game in such a short amount of time.

The 6-foot-5, 259-pound Tryon Shoyinka twice splattered Patriots quarterback Mac Jones, a fellow rookie, for sacks. 

Imagine that, a Washington player having his way with one from Alabama.

Brady, who was a Michigan senior the year that Tryon was born, appears to be a big fan of his new teammate, as the accompanying photo demonstrates.

For that matter, Bucs coach Bruce Arians is a huge supporter of his precocious first-round draft pick, addressing the new guy's play practically every week in glowing terms. This past one was no exception.

"He's fun to watch," Arians said of Tryon-Shoyinka at his Monday press briefing. "He's got a ton of talent and he plays really, really hard, hard and fast. He's one of those guys, too, who's just going to get better and better the more he understands the pro game, that speed isn't only the rush, that power helps, too. He's got both of those things."

Outside of the pair of sacks, Arians liked how Tryon-Shoyinka in one instance held his ground on the corner, fending off three blocks that came at him.

"The biggest thing is staying in his gap and not trying to jump underneath a block and make a play," the coach said. "He's not bad at all right now. He read the crack swing and jumped outside the crack block and blew everybody up. That's what we expect him to do."

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Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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