Sell T.J. Hockenson the day he's cleared and go buy Tyler Warren hurt

Sell T.J. Hockenson this weekend, while he's healthy and everybody's watching. Then take whatever you got for him and go bother the manager who owns Tyler Warren.

Hockenson cleared the concussion protocol Friday and has no designation for Sunday against the Colts, per Alec Lewis of The Athletic. He practiced fully Wednesday, Thursday and Friday coming off the bye. Good for him, and better for you, because right now somebody in your league needs a tight end badly.

Look at the position this week. Cole Kmet likely has a season-ending knee injury, Ian Rapoport reported Friday. Elijah Arroyo went on IR for shoulder surgery that ends his season, per Adam Schefter. Dallas Goedert didn't practice Thursday with a knee. Tight end owners are scared, and scared owners pay for names.

The name is exactly what you're selling. Hockenson has 23 catches for 202 yards and a touchdown through five games, according to RotoBaller. Thirteen of those catches and 119 of those yards came in one game, against Miami in Week 4, with Justin Jefferson sidelined. Take that game out and he has 10 catches for 83 yards in the other four. Yes, he left the Saints game early with the concussion, so be generous and call it three and a half games. That's still not a starter's line. Jefferson and Jordan Addison both practiced fully Thursday, and with both of them out there he's the third option most Sundays. You're paying for a starter.

You'll tell me the clearance is good news and his price is about to go up. Right. That's the point. The health discount just disappeared, and the target problem didn't go anywhere.

Now the buy. The Colts ruled Warren out Friday with a groin injury, his second straight missed game, and he didn't practice Thursday or Friday. There's no timeline and no IR move. His owner has been carrying a zero at tight end for two weeks while the guy across the league just got Hockenson back. That owner is tired, and tired owners take less.

And Warren isn't a rental. He was the 14th pick in the 2025 draft, and the rookie deal he signed that May runs through 2028, so the Colts have every reason to keep building the passing game around him. Whatever your league paid for him at the start, the price his owner will take this week is lower. The groin is an October problem. The contract is a 2027 and 2028 answer.

Here's the risk, and it's real. Two weeks without practice isn't nothing. If he misses next week too, IR comes into play, and that's at least four more games without him. You might be buying a tight end who doesn't score you a point for a month. Fine. That's why he's available. Nobody discounts a healthy first-round pick.

Make the Hockenson owner's weekend, then ruin the Warren owner's. If I'm wrong, you sold a tight end who had 83 yards in his other four games combined.

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