T.J. Sanders is an impact defensive tackle from South Carolina.
We have gone through the consensus board, now we have to look at the players who the Arizona Cardinals have met with.
It won’t be as many, or there is overlap, we will not look at them again, but it will allow us to continue to build our board with some confidence.
This time, we are just using the Walter Football meeting tracker, and going in alphabetical order, and only top 30 visits.
The first prospect today is T.J. Sanders, the South Carolina Gamecocks interior defensive lineman.
From Lance Zierlein:
Sanders is a powerful road block with heavy hands and a strong core. He rarely touches the ground. Despite a lack of knee bend, he usually gives better than he gets and blockers have a hard time keeping him sealed. He punches and locks out quickly with a twitchy shed to tackle a gap over. His rush features average first-step quickness, but sudden hand swipes and play-through power in his lower half open pathways to the pocket. Sanders’ blend of power and pressure should put him on the board for both odd- and even-front defenses as a potential three-down solution.
Sanders is a 6-4 297lbs three-technique defensive lineman, and lined up in that gap most of the time in his 2024 season. He had really nice seasons in 2023 and 2024, finishing with 17 tackles for loss and 8.5 sacks in the two seasons.
The question becomes, is he a guy you take at 47 if you do not take a defensive lineman on day one?