Is a tight end worth a top-10 pick?

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty ImagesT.J. Hockenson is a pick that not many can criticize when talking about the individual player. As a prospect, he’s pretty darn clean. He can block, he can catch, he can run routes and create separation. He checks every character box and doesn’t have much of anything in the way of red flags—from personality to injury history. He’s about as safe of a pick as you can make, if there is such a thing as a safe pick in the NFL Draft.

But the question that keeps coming up is one that has little to do with Hockenson as a prospect at all; it’s more of a fundamental question that’s absolutely worth considering: Is any tight end worthy of a top-10 pick?

Picking that high…