[2] His father, Graham Hocking played one game for South Melbourne in 1971 and his older brother Evan has played in the Victorian Football League for Port Melbourne Football Club.
He was suspended for two years which, with backdating, ended in November 2016; as a result, he served approximately fourteen months of his suspension and missed the entire 2016 AFL season.
[4] With the retirements of Jobe Watson and Brent Stanton at the end of the 2017 AFL season, Hocking was the last player remaining on the Essendon playing list to be coached by Kevin Sheedy until he was delisted in September 2017.
[5] In 2022, Hocking was enticed back to his former junior club where his Mooroolbark team was defeated in the Division One Eastern FNL Grand Final.
In 2024, Hocking was named at Number 96 in Don The Stat's Countdown of the Top 100 Essendon Players since 1980.