The Shield Getting a New Member?

Recent reports have surfaced that the WWE's biggest team of Heels, The Shield, could be joined by a new member sometime in 2014. Some recent SmackDown and Raw shows indicate that Roman Reigns is on the verge of leaving his Rollins and Ambrose for a solo career sometime in the near future. There is a lot of mystery as to who this new member could be. The name Mason Ryan, a part of CM Punk's New Nexus, and a star that never quite broke out in the WWE is a likely candidate for the position in The Shield. 

A brief statement from Bryan Alvarez in this weeks F4W Newsletter says:

"The feeling this week is that when Roman Reigns does his babyface turn and split from the Shield, likely in February, that he'll be replaced with a new guy in the group. The name Mason Ryan has been thrown around as a possibility."

Although Mason Ryan is a likely candidate, he would need to seriously work to improve his in ring ability as well as his promos and his speaking on the mic, which were both mediocre at best 2 years ago. Since his pull from TV, he has bounced in and out of NXT numerous times, and has suffered a few injuries. But if these reports are true, we should see a huge solo push for Reigns coming up and a new member of The Shield sometime in early 2014.