High school and college years

Nelson played football in his high school years for Falcons. During his senior year in high school, he was successful in completing more than 60% of the passes and made eight touchdowns. As a child Nelson had acute interest in track and field events. He ended his school career with 2nd place. He had 206 receptions for a total of 2,822 yards.

During his college year of 2003, he had the most prolific single seasons and in 2007 he went on to win the All American Honours. He is a major in social science.

NFL career

Jordy Nelson has already proved his worth in the NFL league. He is already in his 7th NFL season. He has staggering stats in terms of passes caught, receiving yards and number of touchdowns. Many opposing teams think of him as the deepest threat of the NFL league. His 42 touchdown receptions are fourth in the NFL league. He is already a super bowl champion. His team also won the NFC championship in the same year of 2010. He was one of the two players in the history to record 13 plus TD catches in two seasons

After finishing his college he was picked up by the Green Bay Packers during the second round of the 2008 NFL draft.

He caught everybody’s eye four years back with his performance in the Packers 31-25 win against Steelers in Super Bowl XLV. He scored the first touchdown in that game. Since then Nelson has never looked back even during serious injuries. He is one of the two people in the history of the whole franchise to register 1300 plus yards and 85 plus receptions achieving the feat in the year 2011 and 2014. He received 1,519 yards to set a single season record surpassing previous record of 1,497 set by Robert Brooks. During his career, He has played over 105 games out of 112 regular season games. He was also a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award. Nelson injured his knee during a match against Pittsburgh Steelers and it was reported that Nelson will not be returning to the ground for the whole 2015 season.

Personal life

In 2007 Nelson married his girlfriend Emily Rothlisberger. He proposed to her during a family occasion. His wife is a former basketball player. They both have two children named Royal and Brooks. Nelson is a devoted Christian and donates money to charities. Nelson and his wife both are involved in charities. Kansas State on august 20th 2015 announced that they are going to name their football locker room as “Nelsons’ family locker room” after him. This was after Nelson gave undisclosed amount of money for the construction of locker room.