What if The Shield added female members?

3. Dakota Kai

Dakota Kai could keep from getting lost in the shuffle with The Shield.

From a reality based perspective, The Shield is first and foremost about pushing elite talents who might have otherwise gone overlooked or underappreciated, or had trouble getting over. Dakota Kai could fit in nicely as a very talented recruit out of NXT who has yet to quite break the glass ceiling to meaningfully figure into the title picture there, and who’d likely as not get lost in the shuffle upon getting called up to the main roster.

Kai may be most valuable in this capacity as not a solo addition, but perhaps one of three female additions to the new Shield. She already has had an oddball kayfabe friendship with Nikki Cross in the past, and playing a female Seth Rollins to Cross’s Dean Ambrose could be a logical enough parallel. Kai isn’t proven as a heel, but given the faction’s face trajectory, and how unlikely it is for fans to fully turn against them as a unit, Kai should be a fine enough addition.