Detroit Lions exercise fifth-year option on T.J. Hockenson’s rookie contract
ALLEN PARK -- The Detroit Lions have exercised the fifth-year option on tight end T.J. Hockenson’s rookie contract, an expected move given his growing import to the offense. “(If a long-term extension) doesn’t happen, then we would have an intention to get that fifth-year option done,” Holmes said. The decision is an obvious one now, although Hockenson’s arrival in Detroit was a bumpy one back in 2019. He was taken with the eighth overall pick, then immediately booed at the Lions’ own draft party inside team headquarters. Teams don’t usually take tight ends in the first round, much less the top 10, and here were the Lions -- already the leader in first-round tight ends over the last decade -- doing it yet again, and in the top 10 no less.
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