Packers schedule top-30 visit with Southeastern Louisiana star Kaleb Proctor

Green Bay scheduled a top-30 visit with Southeastern Louisiana defensive lineman Kaleb Proctor following a pro day and Combine week that underlined the speed and explosiveness evaluators want from an interior disruptor. Proctor measured roughly 6-foot-2 and 291 pounds at the NFL Scouting Combine, posted a 4.79-second 40-yard dash, a 33-inch vertical and a 113-inch broad jump, and added a 4.71 short shuttle, numbers that produced a Relative Athletic Score in the 9.1 range and placed him second among defensive tackles in 40-yard dash time at the event.

The Packers’ outreach came after a 2025 season in which Proctor totaled nine sacks and 13 tackles for loss and earned Southeastern Louisiana’s Southland Conference Player of the Year honor on Nov. 25, 2025, while teammate KK Reno was named the conference Defensive Player of the Year. Proctor backed up his FCS production in a Power Five spotlight at Tiger Stadium on Sept. 20, 2025, when he recorded 2.0 sacks and three tackles for loss against LSU, a performance that is now cited as proof he can generate backfield disruption beyond the Southland Conference level.

Proctor’s tape and testing create a clear schematic hook: his pass-rush win rate and first-step explosiveness show up as interior penetration, and scouts have noted a varied toolkit that includes bend and counter moves. Those traits explain why teams are imagining him as a 3-technique or sub-package interior rusher on obvious passing downs, where he can exploit short-area quickness — the 4.71 shuttle in particular gives evaluators a measurable short-area change-of-direction profile that projects to third-down pass-rush snaps and stunt work.

There are caveats evaluators are discussing in meetings with Proctor. At 291 pounds, his size and hand-strength profile are seen as areas that could require schematic protection once NFL-level blockers engage him, so teams envision using him in rotation packages rather than as an every-down nose. That projection is why the Packers’ formal visit — one of nearly a half-dozen teams to bring him in for interviews and workouts, with the Arizona Cardinals also hosting him on an official visit on April 9, 2026 — reads as intent to evaluate him for a Day 2/Day 3 pick or a prioritized free-agent signing.

Proctor’s timeline to the league was not accidental: he was on Southeastern Louisiana’s 2026 East-West Shrine Bowl 1000 list in July 2025 and finished the year as a first-team FCS Football Central All-American on Dec. 15, 2025. For Green Bay, the question coming out of the visit is practical and immediate: can they shoehorn Proctor’s Combine explosiveness into third-down pass-rush packages and special-teams or goal-line roles fast enough for him to contribute as a rookie? The visit indicates the Packers believe the answer is worth finding out.