User blog comment:Garhdo/Mass Effect: Andromeda/@comment-25400375-20151108180759/@comment-1440333-20151117040311

Thinking about it Ryder may possibly be the name of the N7 soldier - after all we know Alliance soldier's have dogtags, and have no idea what the military status is of the protagonist yet Bioware have stated in the past the protagonist will not be a soldier. I think it is rather likely that Ryder will be the name of the N7 and that he will be either a squadmate or important secondary character for the game, similar to how characters like Coats, Varric and Cassandra were heavily featured in the earliest ME3 and DA:I trailers.