5 WWE Superstars Daniel Bryan hugely put over in 2019

#4 Rowan

In August 2018, Rowan suffered an injury that took him and his tag team partner Luke Harper out of action for several weeks.

While Harper remained away from competition for longer, Rowan returned to television at Royal Rumble 2019 and helped his former partner Daniel Bryan retain the WWE Championship against AJ Styles.

This allowed them to form an alliance, and Bryan began to use Rowan as the muscle to protect him and his WWE Championship for several months. The move allowed Rowan to get into another great storyline.

In May 2019, Rowan and Bryan defeated The Usos to become the new SmackDown Tag Team Champions, beginning their first reign together. This allowed Rowan to once again become a huge star on SmackDown and get much more attention than he was getting earlier as part of the Bludgeon Brothers.

Soon after, the two men lost the title but got into a rivalry with Roman Reigns, which allowed Rowan to break away from Bryan and go after Reigns with the help of Harper.

Later on, Bryan teamed up with Reigns to defeat the team of Rowan and Harper but did enough to give the man a singles push which he has now carried into the RAW brand along with a cage.