T.J. Hockenson

TE · DET/MIN · 2019–2026

Born July 3, 1997 · College Iowa · Drafted 2019, round 1, pick 8 (DET) · 6-5, 248 lb

Pro Bowl ×2 (2020, 2022)

EPA per target by season

Filled dot: stabilised, with its 90% interval. Ring: the raw season rate.

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	EPA/carry	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2020	DET	16	1	−4.993	−5.0	−0.05
2025	MIN	15	1	−1.107	−1.1	−0.03
Career	MIN	105	2	−3.050	−6.1	−0.08

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2019	DET	12	59	32	367	2	54.2	+0.146	+0.203+0.041 to +0.365	14.1	7.7	+8.6	+0.08
2020	DET	16	101	67	723	6	66.3	+0.087	+0.194+0.047 to +0.342	18.0	7.0	+8.8	+1.13
2021	DET	12	84	61	583	4	72.6	+0.064	+0.161+0.009 to +0.314	21.0	7.3	+5.4	+0.20
2022	MIN	17	129	86	904	6	66.7	+0.026	+0.147+0.008 to +0.287	20.3	7.6	+3.4	+0.38
2022 playoffs	MIN	1	11	10	129	0	90.9	+0.989		28.2	6.6	+10.9	+0.26
2023	MIN	15	127	95	960	5	74.8	+0.251	+0.259+0.119 to +0.399	23.9	7.7	+31.8	+0.69
2024	MIN	10	62	41	455	0	66.1	+0.153	+0.205+0.045 to +0.366	18.2	8.4	+9.5	+0.55
2024 playoffs	MIN	1	5	5	64	1	100.0	+1.318		12.5	6.6	+6.6	+0.07
2025	MIN	15	66	51	438	3	77.3	+0.214	+0.243+0.084 to +0.402	15.6	5.0	+14.1	+0.02
2026	MIN	8	44	35	328	3	79.5	+0.399	+0.259+0.091 to +0.427	20.9	7.5	+17.6	+0.52
Career	MIN	105	672	468	4,758	29	69.6	+0.148		19.1	7.3	+99.1	+3.56

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles
2020	DET	16	1
2021	DET	12	2
2023	MIN	15	1
2025	MIN	15	1
2026	MIN	8	2
Career	MIN	105	7

Honours

Honours: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), matched to players through Wikidata (CC0). Awards and All-Pro teams are the Associated Press’s; Pro Bowl selections include replacements.

Season	Honours
2020	Pro Bowl
2022	Pro Bowl

Playing time

Scrimmage snaps from 2016, in the games he played (share: of his team’s snaps in those games). A season’s snaps appear after its playoffs, when the data is published. Who was on the field: NFL Next Gen Stats via nflverse (2016–22) and FTN Data via nflverse (2023 on), CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Team	G	Offensive snaps	Share of the offence’s snaps	Defensive snaps	Share of the defence’s snaps
2019	DET	12	512	62.4	–	–
2020	DET	16	752	72.9	–	–
2021	DET	12	648	83.4	–	–
2022	DET/MIN	17	976	84.6	–	–
2022 playoffs	MIN	1	50	87.7	–	–
2023	MIN	15	788	79.8	–	–
2024	MIN	10	423	62.3	–	–
2024 playoffs	MIN	1	43	59.7	–	–
2025	MIN	15	685	79.7	–	–

Hands and contested catches

Regular season, 2022 on. Charting: FTN Data via nflverse, CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Targets charted	Catchable %	Drops	Drop % of catchable	Contested targets	Contested catch %
2022	129	81.4	2	1.9	38	63.2
2023	127	81.1	2	1.9	31	48.4
2024	62	71.0	1	2.3	12	41.7
2025	66	86.4	5	8.8	9	44.4
2026	44	77.3	0	0.0	7	57.1

Game logs

2026 game log (8 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2026-09-13	vs GB	W 39–22	5	4	36	1	+3.2	1
2	2026-09-20	@ CHI	W 9–3	4	3	29	0	+3.3	0
3	2026-09-27	@ TB	W 23–16	4	2	11	0	−1.2	0
4	2026-10-04	vs MIA	W 15–10	13	13	119	0	+11.2	0
5	2026-10-11	@ NO	W 23–13	1	1	7	0	+0.6	0
7	2026-10-25	vs IND	W 16–10	5	4	35	1	+1.4	0
8	2026-11-01	@ DET	L 15–19	5	4	58	1	+6.5	0
9	2026-11-09	vs BUF	L 6–23	7	4	33	0	−7.4	1

2025 game log (15 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2025-09-08	@ CHI	W 27–24	0	0.0	4	3	15	0	−0.3	0
2	2025-09-14	vs ATL	L 6–22	0	0.0	3	1	12	0	−1.9	0
3	2025-09-21	vs CIN	W 48–10	0	0.0	6	5	49	1	+6.1	0
4	2025-09-28	@ PIT	L 21–24	0	0.0	5	4	39	0	+1.3	1
5	2025-10-05	@ CLE	W 21–17	0	0.0	6	6	38	0	+2.1	0
7	2025-10-19	vs PHI	L 22–28	0	0.0	9	6	43	0	−2.4	0
8	2025-10-23	@ LAC	L 10–37	0	0.0	3	2	26	0	+0.5	0
9	2025-11-02	@ DET	W 27–24	0	0.0	3	2	11	1	+2.1	0
10	2025-11-09	vs BAL	L 19–27	0	0.0	2	2	8	0	−0.3	0
11	2025-11-16	vs CHI	L 17–19	0	0.0	6	3	39	0	−0.0	0
12	2025-11-23	@ GB	L 6–23	1	−1.1	4	4	19	0	−2.2	0
13	2025-11-30	@ SEA	L 0–26	0	0.0	6	6	59	0	+3.4	0
14	2025-12-07	vs WAS	W 31–0	0	0.0	3	2	12	1	+2.8	0
15	2025-12-14	@ DAL	W 34–26	0	0.0	5	4	66	0	+3.2	0
16	2025-12-21	@ NYG	W 16–13	0	0.0	1	1	2	0	−0.4	0

2024 game log (11 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
9	2024-11-03	vs IND	W 21–13	4	3	27	0	−5.0
10	2024-11-10	@ JAX	W 12–7	9	8	72	0	+8.3
11	2024-11-17	@ TEN	W 23–13	3	2	13	0	+1.3
12	2024-11-24	@ CHI	W 30–27 OT	9	7	114	0	+3.7
13	2024-12-01	vs ARI	W 23–22	6	3	28	0	+0.7
14	2024-12-08	vs ATL	W 42–21	5	4	45	0	+4.2
15	2024-12-16	vs CHI	W 30–12	7	5	52	0	+4.1
16	2024-12-22	@ SEA	W 27–24	5	2	27	0	+0.9
17	2024-12-29	vs GB	W 27–25	6	5	68	0	−1.7
18	2025-01-05	@ DET	L 9–31	8	2	9	0	−7.1
P19	2025-01-13	@ LA	L 9–27	5	5	64	1	+6.6

2023 game log (15 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2023-09-10	vs TB	L 17–20	9	8	35	0	+0.5	0
2	2023-09-14	@ PHI	L 28–34	8	7	66	2	+7.9	0
3	2023-09-24	vs LAC	L 24–28	11	8	78	0	−7.3	0
4	2023-10-01	@ CAR	W 21–13	3	2	24	0	+0.6	0
5	2023-10-08	vs KC	L 20–27	8	5	51	0	−1.0	0
6	2023-10-15	@ CHI	W 19–13	8	6	50	0	−0.8	1
7	2023-10-23	vs SF	W 22–17	12	11	86	0	+3.9	0
8	2023-10-29	@ GB	W 24–10	9	6	88	1	+6.3	0
9	2023-11-05	@ ATL	W 31–28	12	7	69	0	+3.3	0
10	2023-11-12	vs NO	W 27–19	15	11	134	1	+9.2	0
11	2023-11-19	@ DEN	L 20–21	7	4	55	0	+2.0	0
12	2023-11-27	vs CHI	L 10–12	6	5	50	1	−2.0	0
14	2023-12-10	@ LV	W 3–0	8	5	53	0	+1.0	0
15	2023-12-16	@ CIN	L 24–27 OT	7	6	63	0	+5.0	0
16	2023-12-24	vs DET	L 24–30	4	4	58	0	+3.2	0

2022 game log (18 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2022-09-11	vs PHI	L 35–38	7	4	38	0	−4.0
2	2022-09-18	vs WAS	W 36–27	7	3	26	0	−2.3
3	2022-09-25	@ MIN	L 24–28	4	3	18	1	−2.5
4	2022-10-02	vs SEA	L 45–48	12	8	179	2	+5.6
5	2022-10-09	@ NE	L 0–29	4	1	6	0	−5.7
7	2022-10-23	@ DAL	L 6–24	5	4	48	0	+2.8
8	2022-10-30	vs MIA	L 27–31	4	3	80	0	+4.2
9	2022-11-06	@ WAS	W 20–17	9	9	70	0	+4.4
10	2022-11-13	@ BUF	W 33–30 OT	10	7	45	0	+2.3
11	2022-11-20	vs DAL	L 3–40	9	5	34	0	−4.4
12	2022-11-24	vs NE	W 33–26	6	5	43	1	+4.1
13	2022-12-04	vs NYJ	W 27–22	6	4	33	0	+0.8
14	2022-12-11	@ DET	L 23–34	8	6	67	0	+3.0
15	2022-12-17	vs IND	W 39–36 OT	9	3	33	0	−3.0
16	2022-12-24	vs NYG	W 27–24	16	13	109	2	+3.1
17	2023-01-01	@ GB	L 17–41	12	7	59	0	−7.7
18	2023-01-08	@ CHI	W 29–13	1	1	16	0	+2.5
P19	2023-01-15	vs NYG	L 24–31	11	10	129	0	+10.9

2021 game log (12 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2021-09-12	vs SF	L 33–41	11	8	97	1	+0.1	0
2	2021-09-20	@ GB	L 17–35	9	8	66	1	+5.6	0
3	2021-09-26	vs BAL	L 17–19	2	2	10	0	−0.3	0
4	2021-10-03	@ CHI	L 14–24	8	4	42	0	−1.1	0
5	2021-10-10	@ MIN	L 17–19	3	2	22	0	+1.5	0
6	2021-10-17	vs CIN	L 11–34	11	8	74	0	−0.7	1
7	2021-10-24	@ LA	L 19–28	9	6	48	0	−4.5	0
8	2021-10-31	vs PHI	L 6–44	11	10	89	0	+4.7	0
10	2021-11-14	@ PIT	T 16–16 OT	1	0	0	0	−0.7	0
11	2021-11-21	@ CLE	L 10–13	8	6	51	0	−0.7	0
12	2021-11-25	vs CHI	L 14–16	3	3	35	1	+3.1	0
13	2021-12-05	vs MIN	W 29–27	8	4	49	1	−1.7	1

2020 game log (16 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2020-09-13	vs CHI	L 23–27	0	0.0	5	5	56	1	+4.9	1
2	2020-09-20	@ GB	L 21–42	0	0.0	4	4	62	0	+2.2	0
3	2020-09-27	@ ARI	W 26–23	0	0.0	7	4	53	0	+2.0	0
4	2020-10-04	vs NO	L 29–35	0	0.0	4	2	9	1	−5.0	0
6	2020-10-18	@ JAX	W 34–16	0	0.0	5	2	17	1	+2.2	0
7	2020-10-25	@ ATL	W 23–22	0	0.0	6	5	59	1	+4.2	0
8	2020-11-01	vs IND	L 21–41	0	0.0	10	7	65	0	+0.5	0
9	2020-11-08	@ MIN	L 20–34	0	0.0	8	5	39	1	−12.6	0
10	2020-11-15	vs WAS	W 30–27	0	0.0	4	2	13	0	+0.7	0
11	2020-11-22	@ CAR	L 0–20	0	0.0	7	4	68	0	+2.0	0
12	2020-11-26	vs HOU	L 25–41	0	0.0	8	5	89	0	+4.1	0
13	2020-12-06	@ CHI	W 34–30	0	0.0	9	7	84	0	+4.6	0
14	2020-12-13	vs GB	L 24–31	0	0.0	11	6	43	1	−1.3	0
15	2020-12-20	@ TEN	L 25–46	1	−5.0	4	2	18	0	+1.0	0
16	2020-12-26	vs TB	L 7–47	0	0.0	6	4	23	0	−2.6	0
17	2021-01-03	vs MIN	L 35–37	0	0.0	3	3	25	0	+1.9	0

2019 game log (12 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2019-09-08	@ ARI	T 27–27 OT	9	6	131	1	+9.6
2	2019-09-15	vs LAC	W 13–10	3	1	7	0	−1.7
3	2019-09-22	@ PHI	W 27–24	4	1	1	0	−2.5
4	2019-09-29	vs KC	L 30–34	3	3	27	1	+4.1
6	2019-10-14	@ GB	L 22–23	6	4	21	0	+0.6
7	2019-10-20	vs MIN	L 30–42	5	3	32	0	−0.3
8	2019-10-27	vs NYG	W 31–26	1	1	21	0	+1.9
9	2019-11-03	@ LV	L 24–31	7	3	56	0	+1.3
10	2019-11-10	@ CHI	L 13–20	6	3	47	0	+1.4
11	2019-11-17	vs DAL	L 27–35	2	1	6	0	−1.0
12	2019-11-24	@ WAS	L 16–19	2	0	0	0	−1.1
13	2019-11-28	vs CHI	L 20–24	11	6	18	0	−3.7