Jordy Nelson

WR · GB/LV · 2008–2018

Born May 31, 1985 · College Kansas State · Drafted 2008, round 2, pick 36 (GB) · 6-3, 217 lb

Comeback Player of the Year (2016) · 2nd-team All-Pro (2014) · Pro Bowl (2014)

EPA per target by season

Filled dot: stabilised, with its 90% interval. Ring: the raw season rate.

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Stabilised EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2018	LV	15	1	-2	0	-2.00	−1.173		0.0	−1.2	−0.02

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2008	GB	16	54	33	366	2	61.1	+0.238	+0.152−0.018 to +0.321	10.3	11.8	+12.9	+0.49
2009	GB	12	31	22	320	2	71.0	+0.729	+0.147−0.031 to +0.325	7.5	12.2	+22.6	+0.44
2009 playoffs	GB	1	2	1	10	1	50.0	−0.883		4.8	9.0	−1.8	−0.04
2010	GB	16	64	45	582	2	70.3	+0.461	+0.227+0.061 to +0.394	12.1	10.3	+29.5	+0.82
2010 playoffs	GB	4	29	21	286	2	72.4	+0.806		22.0	11.7	+23.4	+0.31
2011	GB	16	92	65	1,182	14	70.7	+0.837	+0.403+0.245 to +0.561	17.7	12.4	+77.0	+1.11
2011 playoffs	GB	1	7	3	39	0	42.9	+0.066		15.2	13.7	+0.5	+0.05
2012	GB	12	73	49	745	7	67.1	+0.656	+0.309+0.146 to +0.473	17.8	12.3	+47.9	+1.16
2012 playoffs	GB	2	13	8	97	0	61.5	+0.253		18.1	15.8	+3.3	−0.00
2013	GB	16	127	85	1,314	8	66.9	+0.438	+0.315+0.166 to +0.464	22.9	10.8	+55.6	+1.18
2013 playoffs	GB	1	8	7	62	1	87.5	+0.674		33.3	12.4	+5.4	+0.16
2014	GB	16	151	98	1,519	13	64.9	+0.563	+0.396+0.252 to +0.540	28.4	11.5	+85.1	+1.20
2014 playoffs	GB	2	13	7	93	0	53.8	+0.252		18.8	12.2	+3.3	+0.09
2016	GB	16	152	97	1,257	14	63.8	+0.475	+0.360+0.216 to +0.503	24.8	12.2	+72.3	+1.43
2016 playoffs	GB	2	12	7	80	1	58.3	+0.254		14.6	16.3	+3.0	+0.04
2017	GB	14	88	53	482	6	60.2	−0.052	+0.105−0.054 to +0.264	18.6	11.0	−4.6	+0.18
2018	LV	15	88	63	739	3	71.6	+0.217	+0.251+0.092 to +0.411	17.5	9.2	+19.1	+0.69
Career	LV	149	920	610	8,506	71	66.3	+0.454		18.1	11.4	+417.3	+8.70

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles	Tackles for loss	Passes defensed
2008	GB	16	3	–	–
2009	GB	12	1	0	0
2011	GB	16	4	0	0
2012	GB	12	1	0	0
2013	GB	16	1	0	0
2014	GB	16	1	0	0
2016 playoffs	GB	2	1	0	0
2017	GB	14	2	0	0
2018	LV	15	1	0	0
Career	LV	149	14	0	0

Honours

Honours: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), matched to players through Wikidata (CC0). Awards and All-Pro teams are the Associated Press’s; Pro Bowl selections include replacements.

Season	Honours
2014	2nd-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2016	Comeback Player of the Year

Playing time

Scrimmage snaps from 2016, in the games he played (share: of his team’s snaps in those games). A season’s snaps appear after its playoffs, when the data is published. Who was on the field: NFL Next Gen Stats via nflverse (2016–22) and FTN Data via nflverse (2023 on), CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Team	G	Offensive snaps	Share of the offence’s snaps	Defensive snaps	Share of the defence’s snaps
2016	GB	16	1,005	94.6	–	–
2016 playoffs	GB	2	65	47.8	–	–
2017	GB	15	802	82.8	–	–
2018	LV	15	831	87.0	–	–

Game logs

2018 game log (15 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2018-09-10	vs LA	L 13–33	0	0	0.0	4	3	23	0	−4.6	1
2	2018-09-16	@ DEN	L 19–20	0	0	0.0	4	2	30	0	−0.4	0
3	2018-09-23	@ MIA	L 20–28	0	0	0.0	8	6	173	1	+13.3	0
4	2018-09-30	vs CLE	W 45–42 OT	0	0	0.0	8	5	48	1	+0.6	0
5	2018-10-07	@ LAC	L 10–26	0	0	0.0	4	4	43	1	+4.1	0
6	2018-10-14	vs SEA	L 3–27	0	0	0.0	3	2	6	0	−1.7	0
8	2018-10-28	vs IND	L 28–42	0	0	0.0	4	1	14	0	−1.5	0
9	2018-11-01	@ SF	L 3–34	0	0	0.0	3	2	16	0	−0.8	0
10	2018-11-11	vs LAC	L 6–20	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	−0.7	0
12	2018-11-25	@ BAL	L 17–34	1	-2	−1.2	1	0	0	0	−0.8	0
13	2018-12-02	vs KC	L 33–40	0	0	0.0	11	10	97	0	+5.4	0
14	2018-12-09	vs PIT	W 24–21	0	0	0.0	7	6	48	0	+3.1	0
15	2018-12-16	@ CIN	L 16–30	0	0	0.0	8	6	88	0	+6.0	0
16	2018-12-24	vs DEN	W 27–14	0	0	0.0	10	7	75	0	+3.4	0
17	2018-12-30	@ KC	L 3–35	0	0	0.0	12	9	78	0	−6.3	0

2017 game log (14 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2017-09-10	vs SEA	W 17–9	8	7	79	1	+7.2	0
3	2017-09-24	vs CIN	W 27–24 OT	9	6	52	2	−4.0	0
4	2017-09-28	vs CHI	W 35–14	7	4	75	2	+7.5	0
5	2017-10-08	@ DAL	W 35–31	4	2	24	1	+0.7	0
6	2017-10-15	@ MIN	L 10–23	10	6	60	0	−3.8	1
7	2017-10-22	vs NO	L 17–26	4	1	13	0	−0.3	0
9	2017-11-06	vs DET	L 17–30	7	4	35	0	−0.4	0
10	2017-11-12	@ CHI	W 23–16	4	3	20	0	+0.7	0
11	2017-11-19	vs BAL	L 0–23	6	2	24	0	−6.3	0
12	2017-11-26	@ PIT	L 28–31	5	3	11	0	−1.9	0
13	2017-12-03	vs TB	W 26–20 OT	8	5	17	0	−5.0	0
14	2017-12-10	@ CLE	W 27–21 OT	5	4	33	0	+2.0	0
15	2017-12-17	@ CAR	L 24–31	6	3	28	0	+1.3	1
16	2017-12-23	vs MIN	L 0–16	5	3	11	0	−2.1	0

2016 game log (18 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2016-09-11	@ JAX	W 27–23	9	6	32	1	+1.1	0
2	2016-09-18	@ MIN	L 14–17	11	5	73	1	+3.0	0
3	2016-09-25	vs DET	W 34–27	7	6	101	2	+9.3	0
5	2016-10-09	vs NYG	W 23–16	13	4	38	1	−3.4	0
6	2016-10-16	vs DAL	L 16–30	7	5	68	0	−2.5	0
7	2016-10-20	vs CHI	W 26–10	4	1	9	0	+0.4	0
8	2016-10-30	@ ATL	L 32–33	9	4	94	1	+6.1	0
9	2016-11-06	vs IND	L 26–31	13	7	94	1	+4.3	0
10	2016-11-13	@ TEN	L 25–47	18	12	126	1	+5.9	0
11	2016-11-20	@ WAS	L 24–42	5	3	28	1	+1.8	0
12	2016-11-28	@ PHI	W 27–13	12	8	91	0	+8.7	0
13	2016-12-04	vs HOU	W 21–13	10	8	118	1	+9.3	0
14	2016-12-11	vs SEA	W 38–10	7	6	41	2	+4.4	0
15	2016-12-18	@ CHI	W 30–27	10	7	124	0	+6.4	0
16	2016-12-24	vs MIN	W 38–25	11	9	154	2	+12.5	0
17	2017-01-01	@ DET	W 31–24	6	6	66	0	+5.0	0
P18	2017-01-08	vs NYG	W 38–13	3	1	13	0	−0.3	0
P20	2017-01-22	@ ATL	L 21–44	9	6	67	1	+3.4	1

2014 game log (18 games)

2014 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2014-09-04	@ SEA	L 16–36	14	9	83	0	−4.3	0
2	2014-09-14	vs NYJ	W 31–24	16	9	209	1	+7.6	0
3	2014-09-21	@ DET	L 7–19	7	5	59	0	+0.9	0
4	2014-09-28	@ CHI	W 38–17	12	10	108	2	+11.3	0
5	2014-10-02	vs MIN	W 42–10	3	1	66	1	+4.2	0
6	2014-10-12	@ MIA	W 27–24	16	9	107	1	+6.5	0
7	2014-10-19	vs CAR	W 38–17	5	4	80	1	+4.9	0
8	2014-10-26	@ NO	L 23–44	5	3	25	0	+0.7	0
10	2014-11-09	vs CHI	W 55–14	6	6	152	2	+14.9	0
11	2014-11-16	vs PHI	W 53–20	10	4	109	1	+3.1	0
12	2014-11-23	@ MIN	W 24–21	12	8	68	0	+1.5	0
13	2014-11-30	vs NE	W 26–21	6	2	53	1	+3.5	0
14	2014-12-08	vs ATL	W 43–37	10	8	146	2	+11.3	0
15	2014-12-14	@ BUF	L 13–21	12	5	55	0	−1.1	0
16	2014-12-21	@ TB	W 20–3	9	9	113	1	+15.8	0
17	2014-12-28	vs DET	W 30–20	8	6	86	0	+4.4	1
P19	2015-01-11	vs DAL	W 26–21	5	2	22	0	+0.9	0
P20	2015-01-18	@ SEA	L 22–28 OT	8	5	71	0	+2.3	0

2013 game log (17 games)

2013 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2013-09-08	@ SF	L 28–34	10	7	130	1	+9.1	0
2	2013-09-15	vs WAS	W 38–20	4	3	66	2	+8.0	0
3	2013-09-22	@ CIN	L 30–34	9	8	93	0	+6.0	0
5	2013-10-06	vs DET	W 22–9	7	5	82	0	+5.1	0
6	2013-10-13	@ BAL	W 19–17	10	4	113	1	+2.0	0
7	2013-10-20	vs CLE	W 31–13	6	5	42	1	+4.5	0
8	2013-10-27	@ MIN	W 44–31	8	7	123	2	+15.3	0
9	2013-11-04	vs CHI	L 20–27	9	4	67	0	−6.9	0
10	2013-11-10	vs PHI	L 13–27	10	6	56	0	−8.9	0
11	2013-11-17	@ NYG	L 13–27	9	8	117	0	+4.8	0
12	2013-11-24	vs MIN	T 26–26 OT	7	4	58	0	+1.7	0
13	2013-11-28	@ DET	L 10–40	4	2	14	0	+1.3	0
14	2013-12-08	vs ATL	W 22–21	4	4	85	0	+6.6	0
15	2013-12-15	@ DAL	W 37–36	9	5	61	1	−1.2	0
16	2013-12-22	vs PIT	L 31–38	5	3	46	0	+1.2	0
17	2013-12-29	@ CHI	W 33–28	16	10	161	0	+7.1	1
P18	2014-01-05	vs SF	L 20–23	8	7	62	1	+5.4	0

2012 game log (14 games)

2012 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2012-09-09	vs SF	L 22–30	7	5	64	0	+2.8	0
2	2012-09-13	vs CHI	W 23–10	9	6	84	0	+2.8	0
3	2012-09-24	@ SEA	L 12–14	3	2	19	0	−0.1	0
4	2012-09-30	vs NO	W 28–27	12	8	93	1	+2.7	1
5	2012-10-07	@ IND	L 27–30	5	2	29	0	−0.4	0
6	2012-10-14	@ HOU	W 42–24	12	9	121	3	+11.1	0
7	2012-10-21	@ LA	W 30–20	9	8	122	1	+13.0	0
9	2012-11-04	vs ARI	W 31–17	1	0	0	0	−0.8	0
11	2012-11-18	@ DET	W 24–20	5	3	45	0	+3.9	0
12	2012-11-25	@ NYG	L 10–38	4	2	71	1	+5.6	0
13	2012-12-02	vs MIN	W 23–14	1	1	10	0	+1.3	0
17	2012-12-30	@ MIN	L 34–37	5	3	87	1	+6.1	0
P18	2013-01-05	vs MIN	W 24–10	6	3	51	0	+0.8	0
P19	2013-01-12	@ SF	L 31–45	7	5	46	0	+2.5	0

2011 game log (17 games)

2011 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2011-09-08	vs NO	W 42–34	8	6	77	1	+6.0	0
2	2011-09-18	@ CAR	W 30–23	2	1	84	1	+4.3	0
3	2011-09-25	@ CHI	W 27–17	5	3	40	0	+2.4	1
4	2011-10-02	vs DEN	W 49–23	6	5	91	1	+6.1	0
5	2011-10-09	@ ATL	W 25–14	7	3	17	0	−1.9	0
6	2011-10-16	vs LA	W 24–3	3	2	104	1	+5.9	0
7	2011-10-23	@ MIN	W 33–27	4	4	52	0	+3.3	1
9	2011-11-06	@ LAC	W 45–38	6	5	105	1	+8.9	0
10	2011-11-14	vs MIN	W 45–7	5	5	63	2	+8.9	0
11	2011-11-20	vs TB	W 35–26	7	6	123	2	+13.3	0
12	2011-11-24	@ DET	W 27–15	6	4	26	0	−0.2	0
13	2011-12-04	@ NYG	W 38–35	4	4	94	0	+7.5	2
14	2011-12-11	vs LV	W 46–16	3	0	0	0	−2.6	0
15	2011-12-18	@ KC	L 14–19	4	2	29	0	−0.1	0
16	2011-12-25	vs CHI	W 35–21	7	6	115	2	+9.1	0
17	2012-01-01	vs DET	W 45–41	15	9	162	3	+6.2	0
P19	2012-01-15	vs NYG	L 20–37	7	3	39	0	+0.5	0

2010 game log (20 games)

2010 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2010-09-12	@ PHI	W 27–20	2	1	7	0	−0.6
2	2010-09-19	vs BUF	W 34–7	2	2	26	0	+1.6
3	2010-09-27	@ CHI	L 17–20	4	3	20	0	+0.4
4	2010-10-03	vs DET	W 28–26	1	0	0	0	−1.5
5	2010-10-10	@ WAS	L 13–16 OT	5	3	42	0	+2.4
6	2010-10-17	vs MIA	L 20–23 OT	7	4	64	0	+3.5
7	2010-10-24	vs MIN	W 28–24	7	4	25	0	−0.9
8	2010-10-31	@ NYJ	W 9–0	7	5	55	0	+1.5
9	2010-11-07	vs DAL	W 45–7	6	4	42	0	+1.8
11	2010-11-21	@ MIN	W 31–3	3	3	20	0	+2.2
12	2010-11-28	@ ATL	L 17–20	5	5	61	1	+9.1
13	2010-12-05	vs SF	W 34–16	2	2	15	0	+1.3
14	2010-12-12	@ DET	L 3–7	2	2	26	0	+1.7
15	2010-12-19	@ NE	L 27–31	2	1	16	0	+1.1
16	2010-12-26	vs NYG	W 45–17	7	4	124	1	+3.4
17	2011-01-02	vs CHI	W 10–3	2	2	39	0	+2.4
P18	2011-01-09	@ PHI	W 21–16	1	0	0	0	−0.5
P19	2011-01-15	@ ATL	W 48–21	8	8	79	1	+11.1
P20	2011-01-23	@ CHI	W 21–14	5	4	67	0	+5.1
P21	2011-02-06	vs PIT	W 31–25	15	9	140	1	+7.6

2009 game log (13 games)

2009 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2009-09-13	vs CHI	W 21–15	2	0	0	0	−1.1	0
2	2009-09-20	vs CIN	L 24–31	1	1	11	0	+2.0	0
3	2009-09-27	@ LA	W 36–17	5	3	46	0	+1.8	0
4	2009-10-05	@ MIN	L 23–30	4	3	47	1	+5.3	0
10	2009-11-15	vs DAL	W 17–7	5	4	32	0	+3.3	0
11	2009-11-22	vs SF	W 30–24	3	3	21	1	+2.1	0
12	2009-11-26	@ DET	W 34–12	2	1	19	0	+0.5	1
13	2009-12-07	vs BAL	W 27–14	1	1	5	0	+0.2	0
14	2009-12-13	@ CHI	W 21–14	1	0	0	0	−0.7	0
15	2009-12-20	@ PIT	L 36–37	5	4	71	0	+2.6	0
16	2009-12-27	vs SEA	W 48–10	1	1	17	0	+2.5	0
17	2010-01-03	@ ARI	W 33–7	1	1	51	0	+4.2	0
P18	2010-01-10	@ ARI	L 45–51 OT	2	1	10	1	−1.8	0

2008 game log (16 games)

2008 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2008-09-08	vs MIN	W 24–19	1	0	0	0	−0.5	0
2	2008-09-14	@ DET	W 48–25	2	1	29	1	+2.5	0
3	2008-09-21	vs DAL	L 16–27	9	4	42	0	+1.8	1
4	2008-09-28	@ TB	L 21–30	5	4	31	0	+1.1	1
5	2008-10-05	vs ATL	L 24–27	1	1	14	0	+1.2	0
6	2008-10-12	@ SEA	W 27–17	4	4	42	0	+3.5	0
7	2008-10-19	vs IND	W 34–14	2	2	19	0	+1.6	0
9	2008-11-02	@ TEN	L 16–19 OT	3	2	34	0	+2.3	0
10	2008-11-09	@ MIN	L 27–28	4	2	17	0	+0.7	0
11	2008-11-16	vs CHI	W 37–3	3	1	19	0	−0.8	0
12	2008-11-24	@ NO	L 29–51	6	3	21	0	−5.8	1
13	2008-11-30	vs CAR	L 31–35	3	2	28	0	+2.7	0
14	2008-12-07	vs HOU	L 21–24	5	3	25	1	+0.7	0
15	2008-12-14	@ JAX	L 16–20	1	1	9	0	+0.9	0
16	2008-12-22	@ CHI	L 17–20 OT	4	2	27	0	+0.3	0
17	2008-12-28	vs DET	W 31–21	1	1	9	0	+0.6	0