Edit: appears like Mason Ryan returned at a house show in a match with Zack Ryder yesterday.
You know what? Cole could put over a rookie if placed as his manager. Ryan shouldn't talk. Let Cole do the talking, just have Ryan wreck people in the ring. Make it happen.
That would leave Booker & Matthews on commentary for SmackDown and King & JR on commentary for RAW, with every PPV being called by Booker, King, & JR.