The Detroit Lions are trading choky extremity T.J. Hockenson to the division-rival Minnesota Vikings, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
The Lions volition person a 2023 second-round prime and a 2024 third-round pick, portion the Vikings volition get a 2023 fourth-round enactment and a conditional 2024 fourth-round prime on with Hockenson, a root told Schefter.
Hockenson, 25, has 26 receptions for 395 yards and 3 touchdowns successful 7 games this season. With the trade, helium goes from past spot with the Lions (1-6) to archetypal spot with the Vikings (6-1) successful the NFC North.
He fills an contiguous request for the Vikings arsenic choky extremity Irv Smith Jr. suffered a precocious ankle sprain successful Sunday's triumph implicit the Arizona Cardinals and is expected to miss aggregate weeks, a root told Schefter.
Hockenson has 186 receptions for 2,058 yards and 15 touchdowns successful his 4 seasons with the Lions. He was selected to the Pro Bowl successful 2020 erstwhile helium acceptable vocation highs successful receptions (67), yards (723) and touchdowns (6).
Hockenson, drafted by the Lions successful the archetypal circular of the 2019 draft, volition beryllium an unrestricted escaped cause aft this season.
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