TJ Hockenson sets the TE market
 

Kelce the next holdout? /Deberg

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Update: TJ Hockenson is going to become the highest paid TE in NFL history, signing a 4-year, $68.5M extension, per <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AdamSchefter</a>. The $17.1M average per year sets a new bar for TEs.<br><br>A monster deal and something that all TEs around the NFL have been waiting for: A market-reset. <a href="https://t.co/QJflLRkDXU">https://t.co/QJflLRkDXU</a></p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href="https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1697278097458938234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Doesn't seem like a particularly large jump? https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8ba2a67fa8.jpg

I mean he's good. But he's not the best.

I watch every Vikings game because my wife is a huge fan. Dude could not hold Kelce's jockstrap and I'd argue that Kittle (when healthy) and Andrews are better.

Market resetting? Uh, he got $17.1M per year. Waller is getting $17M. Kittle is 3rd at. $15M. If anyone reset the market it would have been Waller.

every position can't keep getting reset. There's not enough money in the cap.

It doesn't matter as long as Cousins is the QB. He's their ceiling.

Looks like quite a few teams paying big money to mediocre TEs.

Dude is a Top 10 QB. He's just not Mahomes, nobody is.

The Vikings are so weird...

They have massive cap problems, they have to pay Jefferson, everything is positioned for them to move on from Cousins and go into a serious rebuild. The defense is also really really bad and needs a total overhaul..

And then they do this, I don't get it.

He's interchangeable with guys like Garoppolo and Carr. They are all rev limiters for their teams.

Lol that Njoku contract.

I would call it embarrassing, but it pales in comparison to the 3-4 other circus antics going on with that organization currently.

Cousins is better than them just because he never gets hurt and isn't pouty.

He takes a ton of shits behind a bad line and still gets the job done.

Cousins and Carr are definitely the same dude.

JimmyG is a step behind.

Well, everyone has always said that a good tight end is a young quarterback's best friend. He's young, so he can be a good weapon to help a young quarterback grow. I know that he's no Kelce. But Kelce was certainly a huge help for Mahomes development.

Those Hawkeye TEs!

Waller is the one who doesn't deserve getting paid, TJ is legit and frankly worth that kind of $ IMO. Now, I agree, he doesn't come close to Kelce, but nobody does.