T.J. Hockenson Week 3 Outlook - Titans at Vikings

By Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros), Wed, Sep 23rd 2020, 8:46am EDT

It's been a promising start to the season for Hockenson considering he's caught all nine of his targets for 118 yards and a touchdown, but why are they limiting the number of targets he's getting? The biggest game of his career came against this Cardinals team last year when he pounced on them for 6/131/1 on nine targets. Those were the good ol' days when we could start any tight end we wanted against the Cardinals. This year, it's been different. They've allowed 4/44/0 to George Kittle through essentially one half, and then allowed just 4/26/0 to Logan Thomas last week. You don't want to completely change your mind on the small sample size, but it's clear they've improved, as they allowed 13 tight ends to finish as top-10 options last year. The 4.94 yard per target they've allowed to tight ends so far is the sixth-lowest mark in the league. I'm still willing to trust Hockenson as a low-end TE1 considering the expected scoring volume in this game, combined with his stellar efficiency.