When All-American and John Mackey Award winner TJ Hockenson declared for the NFL, it was no surprise. I mean, what more did the former Iowa football player have to do with the Hawks?
Moreover, his stock could quite possibly never be higher than it was after his incredible redshirt sophomore season.
While many initially had Hockenson pegged as a second-round prospect though, it appears that the Chariton, Iowa native is rising quickly up draft boards in the scouting community.
Heck, just last week we reported that Hockenson was projected to go at the bottom of the first round by Bleacher Report’s Matt Miller and in the latter part of the first round in NFL Mocks site expert Sayre Bedinger’s first round mock draft.