According to Packer Report’s Easton Butler, the Green Bay Packers are going to bring in South Carolina defensive tackle T.J. Sanders in for a pre-draft visit.

Sanders is currently the eighth-ranked defensive tackle on the consensus draft board and the 65th overall player in the class.

If the Packers somehow miss on one of Kenneth Grant, Derrick Harmon or Walter Nolen in the first round, there’s a chance that Sanders could either be the team’s second- or third-round selection in the draft later this month.

The 21-year-old did not run the 40-yard dash at the combine, but he did post a 4.95-second 40-yard dash at his Pro Day and has a Relative Athletic Score of 9.38 on a 10-point scale.

T.J. Sanders is a DT prospect in the 2025 draft class. He scored a 9.38 RAS out of a possible 10.00. This ranked 127 out of 2022 DT from 1987 to 2025.https://t.co/YNvdlmkaeN pic.twitter.com/ZR6U1oXPj7

— Kent Lee Platte (@MathBomb) April 1, 2025

The redshirt junior declaration was named a second-team All-SEC player last season and has recorded 17 tackles for losses and 8.5 sacks over the last two years.

According to Pro Football Focus, he’s a player on the rise, increasing his overall grade from 57.3 in 2022 to 72.6 in 2023 and 82.4 in 2024. Both his run and pass-rushing grades have increased in each of the last two years, too.

Sanders would almost certainly be a three-technique in the Packers’ 4-3 system, which would likely mean that Kenny Clark would have to move to nose tackle if Sanders is Green Bay’s long-term replacement for Devonte Wyatt, who is in a contract year.

Last year, the Packers played both Clark (on run downs) and Wyatt (on pass downs) at three-technique with T.J. Slaton playing run downs as the nose tackle. With Slaton now a Cincinnati Bengal, though, that’s clearly not an option for the team going into 2025.