T.J. Hockenson

Five days after being traded from the Lions to the Vikings, tight end T.J. Hockenson played in a game for Minnesota, making nine catches on nine targets for ...

On a scale of one to 10, he said it’s a 9.5 — and that the only reason it isn’t a 10 is because he’s still living in a hotel. “Just being able to kind of revert my mind quickly and understand what’s going on with like what our objective is on each play and just trying to figure out the whole scheme and the whole concepts,” Hockenson said regarding the process of learning a new offense. The fact that the Lions already played the Commanders allowed him to spend less time focusing on a defense he already knew and more time studying the Vikings’ playbook. And then Friday, it’s a ‘fast Friday’ they say, but I was in there for a while after everyone was gone, too, just trying to make sure that I had the whole game plan down. . Being in four different offenses, that’s just tricks I’ve learned to be able to memorize things a little quicker and be able to execute.” “I stayed pretty late on Wednesday just trying to make sure I knew everything in the base plan and then Thursday it’s third-down [package], same thing.