The 21-year-old full-back enjoyed a breakout campaign in this year’s RBS 6 Nations, as Scotland claimed wins against Italy and Ireland to finish third in the table.
Hogg’s performances earned him a place in this summer’s British Irish Lions tour to Australia – one of three Scots to take part in the tour.
His sights will be set on another fruitful RBS 6 Nations campaign next year but Hastings, who captained the 1993 Lions tour to New Zealand, believes Hogg could do wonders for Scottish sevens.
As the sport prepares to make its Olympic debut at Rio 2016 Scotland will feature in next year’s Commonwealth Games and Hastings has preached the benefits of including Scotland’s boy wonder.
“I’ll give you one name – Stuart Hogg. I just think he would be very suited to playing sevens,†he told Scotland on Sunday.
“He would need to meet criteria, whatever that criteria is, but clearly as a person that the Scotland rugby public would get behind I personally would love to see him in a Scotland sevens team.
“I actually think we will and do take our sevens pretty damn seriously and my absolute hope would be that one or two of our high-profile XVs players will be competing for Scotland in the Commonwealth Games.
“That is my fervent hope. They are two different sports in many respects and, at this moment in time, you would definitely want to be a better XV-a-side player than a sevens player. That may, however, change in years to come.â€
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Hastings names Hogg as future Scotland sevens star
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