Green Bay Packers: Jordy Nelson Could Have a Record-Breaking Season in 2014

Wide receiver Jordy Nelson of the Green Bay Packers leads the NFL in receiving yardage with 632 yards. No. 87 is also third in the league with 43 receptions.

In addition to that, Nelson is tied for fourth in the NFL in touchdown receptions with five. And this was done in just six games.

If you calculate what Nelson has done so far this season over 16 games, you would see some unbelievable production from the former Kansas State star.

If Nelson stays on this pace, he will end up with around 115 receptions for 1,685 yards and 13 touchdowns. The catches and the yardage would be new franchise records for the Packers.

Currently, Sterling Sharpe holds the mark for the most receptions in a season with 112 catches in 1993. Robert Brooks holds the record for most yardage in a season when he had 1,497 receiving yards in 1995.

Nelson has a definite shot to break both of those marks.

Sharpe also holds the record for most touchdown receptions in a season with 18, which he had in 1994. Nelson is in third place in that category for the Packers, as he had 15 touchdown catches in 2011.

The great 2014 season that Nelson has had so far came after No. 87 received a contract extension earlier this summer. Nelson and the Packers agreed on a four-year extension worth $39 million, with $14.2 million guaranteed in late July.

Some NFL players have had their play drop off after receiving large contract deals with teams, but that's obviously not the case with Nelson.

In fact, when it's all said and done, Nelson might be on the top of the mountain when it comes to breaking a number of all-time career receiving records for the Packers.

Currently, Nelson is tied with Max McGee with 345 career receptions, which has them in ninth place in that category. Assuming that Nelson averages 80 catches a season over the next five years, No. 87 would be in second place with 703 receptions, only behind Donald Driver, who had 743 career catches as a Packer.

If Nelson averaged 89 catches per season over the next five years, he would be the all-time leader in receptions for the Packers with 747 catches.

Nelson is currently 11th in career receiving yardage for the Packers with 5,222 yards. If Nelson averaged 1,150 receiving yards a season over the next five years, he would also break Driver's all-time best mark of 10,137 yards.

It is doubtful that Nelson could ever catch Don Hutson's mark of 99 career touchdown catches for the Packers. That being said, if Nelson averaged 10 touchdown receptions a season over the next five years, that would put him within range, as he would have 86 career touchdown catches.

I could also see another contract extension for Nelson down the road. He's just 29 years old and has stayed relatively injury-free during his career in Green Bay, except for missing four games in 2012.

The 6'3", 217-pound Nelson stays in excellent shape, has great hands, runs very good routes and seems to get better every season.

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No. 87 has also been a clutch performer in the postseason for the Packers, as he has 40 receptions for 495 yards and four touchdowns. In Super Bowl XLV alone, Nelson had nine receptions for 140 yards and a touchdown.

Nelson is only 11 catches away from being the all-time leader for the Packers in the postseason, as Greg Jennings had 50 career receptions.

In terms of being the all-time leader for the Packers in the postseason for yardage and touchdown receptions, Nelson could definitely hit those marks as well.

Right now, Antonio Freeman leads in both of those categories with 748 yards receiving and 10 touchdown receptions.

Bottom line, Nelson is already among the best receivers in franchise history for the Packers, a history that dates back to 1921.

Nelson has a chance to break a couple of prestigious records this season, not to mention the records he might shatter over the course of the rest of his career in Green Bay.