Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A daren da ya biyo baya a kan "Raw", Owens ya yarda da kalubalen Jericho don wasa a WrestleMania 33 a ranar 2 ga Afrilu muddin Jericho zai kare Gasar Amurka, wanda Owens zai ci gaba da lashe shi a karon farko a cikin aikinsa. A ranar 11 ga Afrilu na "SmackDown Live", an yi musayar Owens zuwa alamar SmackDown a matsayin wani ɓangare na WWE Superstar Shake-up na 2017. Owens, wanda har yanzu zai kare sabon taken da ya lashe a kan Jericho a Payback
tare da mai nasara yana zuwa SmackDown kuma, ya fara kiran kansa da "Face of America" kuma ya fara yin wasa da wani nau'i daban, yana da gemu da gashinsa, yayin da yake sa kwat da wando. A Payback a ranar 30 ga Afrilu, Owens ya rasa taken zuwa Jericho, don haka ya ƙare mulkinsa a kwanaki 28. Koyaya, Owens zai dawo da taken a ranar 2 ga Mayu a cikin shirin "SmackDown Live" ta hanyar kayar da Jericho, sannan kuma ya kai masa hari da raunata shi bayan wasan. A Backlash, Owens ya doke AJ Styles ta hanyar ƙidaya don riƙe gasar zakarun Amurka. Daga baya an sanar da Owens a matsayin daya daga cikin mahalarta a cikin kudin da aka samu a bankin a bankin, tare da Sami Zayn, Shinsuke Nakamura, Styles, Dolph Ziggler da Baron Corbin, wanda Corbin ya fito da nasara.