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Allen Park — Nine Pro Bowls, two Super Bowl rings and 209.5 combined sacks over 332 NFL career games.
Against a rookie.
That’s T.J. Hockenson’s Week 1 challenge on Sunday against Arizona outside linebackers Terrell Suggs and Chandler Jones.
To this point, the Lions rookie tight end has passed all the benchmarks for a top-10 pick: He’s said all the right things, was impressive in training camp and even had a tantalizing few moments in Week 3 of the preseason, traditionally the dress rehearsal for the games that matter.