Steven Nelson

CB · KC/PIT/PHI/HOU · 2015–2023

Born January 22, 1993 · College Oregon State; College of the Sequoias · Drafted 2015, round 3, pick 98 (KC) · 5-11, 194 lb

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	Sacks	QB hits	Tackles for loss	INT	Passes defensed	Forced fumbles
2015	KC	6	8	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2015 playoffs	KC	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	1	0
2016	KC	15	65	0.0	1	4	0	16	0
2016 playoffs	KC	1	5	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2017	KC	8	41	0.0	0	2	0	4	1
2017 playoffs	KC	1	3	0.0	0	0	0	1	0
2018	KC	16	68	0.0	0	2	4	15	0
2018 playoffs	KC	2	5	0.0	0	0	0	2	0
2019	PIT	15	61	0.0	0	0	1	8	0
2020	PIT	15	48	0.0	0	2	2	9	0
2020 playoffs	PIT	1	6	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
2021	PHI	15	50	0.0	0	0	1	7	0
2021 playoffs	PHI	1	4	0.0	0	0	0	1	0
2022	HOU	14	52	1.0	1	1	1	7	1
2023	HOU	17	63	0.0	0	0	4	12	0
2023 playoffs	HOU	2	12	0.0	0	0	1	3	0
Career	HOU	121	456	1.0	2	11	13	78	2

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	KC	15	–	–	996	97.5
2016 playoffs	KC	1	–	–	62	98.4
2017	KC	9	–	–	503	83.0
2017 playoffs	KC	1	–	–	61	96.8
2018	KC	16	–	–	1,145	98.8
2018 playoffs	KC	2	–	–	143	94.7
2019	PIT	15	–	–	1,003	99.0
2020	PIT	15	–	–	897	94.5
2020 playoffs	PIT	1	–	–	64	100.0
2021	PHI	16	–	–	963	92.4
2021 playoffs	PHI	1	–	–	71	97.3
2022	HOU	15	–	–	935	93.7
2023	HOU	17	–	–	1,072	95.5
2023 playoffs	HOU	2	–	–	105	75.5

Game logs

2023 game log (19 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	INT	PD
1	2023-09-10	@ BAL	L 9–25	2	1	1
2	2023-09-17	vs IND	L 20–31	2	0	1
3	2023-09-24	@ JAX	W 37–17	4	0	1
4	2023-10-01	vs PIT	W 30–6	4	1	1
5	2023-10-08	@ ATL	L 19–21	6	0	0
6	2023-10-15	vs NO	W 20–13	6	1	1
8	2023-10-29	@ CAR	L 13–15	2	0	0
9	2023-11-05	vs TB	W 39–37	5	0	0
10	2023-11-12	@ CIN	W 30–27	4	0	0
11	2023-11-19	vs ARI	W 21–16	3	0	1
12	2023-11-26	vs JAX	L 21–24	6	0	2
13	2023-12-03	vs DEN	W 22–17	2	0	1
14	2023-12-10	@ NYJ	L 6–30	5	0	0
15	2023-12-17	@ TEN	W 19–16 OT	2	1	2
16	2023-12-24	vs CLE	L 22–36	6	0	0
17	2023-12-31	vs TEN	W 26–3	2	0	0
18	2024-01-06	@ IND	W 23–19	2	0	1
P19	2024-01-13	vs CLE	W 45–14	5	1	3
P20	2024-01-20	@ BAL	L 10–34	7	0	0

2022 game log (14 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
1	2022-09-11	vs IND	T 20–20 OT	5	0.0	0	2
2	2022-09-18	@ DEN	L 9–16	5	0.0	0	1
3	2022-09-25	@ CHI	L 20–23	5	0.0	0	0
4	2022-10-02	vs LAC	L 24–34	7	0.0	0	0
5	2022-10-09	@ JAX	W 13–6	5	0.0	0	0
7	2022-10-23	@ LV	L 20–38	2	0.0	0	1
8	2022-10-30	vs TEN	L 10–17	2	0.0	1	1
9	2022-11-03	vs PHI	L 17–29	5	1.0	0	0
10	2022-11-13	@ NYG	L 16–24	1	0.0	0	0
11	2022-11-20	vs WAS	L 10–23	3	0.0	0	0
12	2022-11-27	@ MIA	L 15–30	3	0.0	0	1
13	2022-12-04	vs CLE	L 14–27	4	0.0	0	1
16	2022-12-24	@ TEN	W 19–14	1	0.0	0	0
17	2023-01-01	vs JAX	L 3–31	4	0.0	0	0

2021 game log (16 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	INT	PD
1	2021-09-12	@ ATL	W 32–6	7	0	0
2	2021-09-19	vs SF	L 11–17	2	0	1
3	2021-09-27	@ DAL	L 21–41	5	0	0
4	2021-10-03	vs KC	L 30–42	1	0	0
5	2021-10-10	@ CAR	W 21–18	3	1	2
6	2021-10-14	vs TB	L 22–28	5	0	1
7	2021-10-24	@ LV	L 22–33	3	0	0
8	2021-10-31	@ DET	W 44–6	1	0	0
9	2021-11-07	vs LAC	L 24–27	4	0	0
10	2021-11-14	@ DEN	W 30–13	1	0	0
11	2021-11-21	vs NO	W 40–29	3	0	1
12	2021-11-28	@ NYG	L 7–13	6	0	1
15	2021-12-21	vs WAS	W 27–17	3	0	0
16	2021-12-26	vs NYG	W 34–10	4	0	0
17	2022-01-02	@ WAS	W 20–16	2	0	1
P19	2022-01-16	@ TB	L 15–31	4	0	1

2020 game log (16 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	INT	PD
1	2020-09-14	@ NYG	W 26–16	4	0	0
2	2020-09-20	vs DEN	W 26–21	3	0	0
3	2020-09-27	vs HOU	W 28–21	1	0	0
5	2020-10-11	vs PHI	W 38–29	6	2	2
6	2020-10-18	vs CLE	W 38–7	3	0	0
7	2020-10-25	@ TEN	W 27–24	4	0	0
8	2020-11-01	@ BAL	W 28–24	4	0	0
9	2020-11-08	@ DAL	W 24–19	2	0	0
10	2020-11-15	vs CIN	W 36–10	2	0	1
11	2020-11-22	@ JAX	W 27–3	1	0	0
12	2020-12-02	vs BAL	W 19–14	1	0	0
14	2020-12-13	@ BUF	L 15–26	6	0	3
15	2020-12-21	@ CIN	L 17–27	2	0	2
16	2020-12-27	vs IND	W 28–24	6	0	0
17	2021-01-03	@ CLE	L 22–24	3	0	1
P18	2021-01-10	vs CLE	L 37–48	6	0	0

2019 game log (15 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	INT	PD
1	2019-09-08	@ NE	L 3–33	3	0	0
2	2019-09-15	vs SEA	L 26–28	7	0	1
3	2019-09-22	@ SF	L 20–24	4	0	0
4	2019-09-30	vs CIN	W 27–3	3	0	0
5	2019-10-06	vs BAL	L 23–26 OT	4	0	1
8	2019-10-28	vs MIA	W 27–14	1	0	0
9	2019-11-03	vs IND	W 26–24	7	0	0
10	2019-11-10	vs LA	W 17–12	2	0	1
11	2019-11-14	@ CLE	L 7–21	4	0	1
12	2019-11-24	@ CIN	W 16–10	3	0	1
13	2019-12-01	vs CLE	W 20–13	5	0	0
14	2019-12-08	@ ARI	W 23–17	7	0	0
15	2019-12-15	vs BUF	L 10–17	6	1	1
16	2019-12-22	@ NYJ	L 10–16	1	0	0
17	2019-12-29	@ BAL	L 10–28	4	0	2

2018 game log (18 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	INT	PD
1	2018-09-09	@ LAC	W 38–28	8	0	1
2	2018-09-16	@ PIT	W 42–37	3	0	0
3	2018-09-23	vs SF	W 38–27	3	0	0
4	2018-10-01	@ DEN	W 27–23	3	0	0
5	2018-10-07	vs JAX	W 30–14	3	1	2
6	2018-10-14	@ NE	L 40–43	4	0	0
7	2018-10-21	vs CIN	W 45–10	1	0	2
8	2018-10-28	vs DEN	W 30–23	5	0	0
9	2018-11-04	@ CLE	W 37–21	8	1	1
10	2018-11-11	vs ARI	W 26–14	0	1	3
11	2018-11-19	@ LA	L 51–54	6	0	1
13	2018-12-02	@ LV	W 40–33	6	0	0
14	2018-12-09	vs BAL	W 27–24 OT	3	0	1
15	2018-12-13	vs LAC	L 28–29	4	1	3
16	2018-12-23	@ SEA	L 31–38	6	0	0
17	2018-12-30	vs LV	W 35–3	5	0	1
P19	2019-01-12	vs IND	W 31–13	2	0	1
P20	2019-01-20	vs NE	L 31–37 OT	3	0	1

2017 game log (9 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
8	2017-10-30	vs DEN	W 29–19	4	1
9	2017-11-05	@ DAL	L 17–28	5	0
11	2017-11-19	@ NYG	L 9–12 OT	5	2
12	2017-11-26	vs BUF	L 10–16	5	0
13	2017-12-03	@ NYJ	L 31–38	9	0
14	2017-12-10	vs LV	W 26–15	4	1
15	2017-12-16	vs LAC	W 30–13	4	0
16	2017-12-24	vs MIA	W 29–13	5	0
P18	2018-01-06	vs TEN	L 21–22	3	1

2016 game log (16 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
1	2016-09-11	vs LAC	W 33–27 OT	9	0
2	2016-09-18	@ HOU	L 12–19	1	0
3	2016-09-25	vs NYJ	W 24–3	3	3
4	2016-10-02	@ PIT	L 14–43	2	0
6	2016-10-16	@ LV	W 26–10	3	0
7	2016-10-23	vs NO	W 27–21	9	0
8	2016-10-30	@ IND	W 30–14	2	2
9	2016-11-06	vs JAX	W 19–14	2	3
10	2016-11-13	@ CAR	W 20–17	6	1
11	2016-11-20	vs TB	L 17–19	7	1
13	2016-12-04	@ ATL	W 29–28	6	1
14	2016-12-08	vs LV	W 21–13	2	3
15	2016-12-18	vs TEN	L 17–19	8	1
16	2016-12-25	vs DEN	W 33–10	2	1
17	2017-01-01	@ LAC	W 37–27	3	0
P19	2017-01-15	vs PIT	L 16–18	5	0

2015 game log (7 games)

2015 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles	PD
6	2015-10-18	@ MIN	L 10–16	1	0
7	2015-10-25	vs PIT	W 23–13	1	0
12	2015-11-29	vs BUF	W 30–22	3	0
14	2015-12-13	vs LAC	W 10–3	1	0
15	2015-12-20	@ BAL	W 34–14	1	0
17	2016-01-03	vs LV	W 23–17	1	0
P18	2016-01-09	@ HOU	W 30–0	0	1