{"id":40376,"date":"2018-03-15T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T21:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=40376"},"modified":"2018-03-15T17:08:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T21:08:48","slug":"jordy-nelson-signs-oakland-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/03\/15\/jordy-nelson-signs-oakland-raiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordy Nelson Signs With Oakland Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After his tenure\u00a0with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/packers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> came to an <a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/03\/13\/report-green-bay-packers-release-jordy-nelson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">end with his release<\/a>,<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/N\/NelsJo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordy Nelson<\/a><\/strong> has now signed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Raiders<\/a>. The deal is reportedly for two years and worth $15 million with $13 million guaranteed. He will now be catching passes from <strong>Derek\u00a0Carr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Raiders are giving Jordy Nelson a two-year, $15 million deal, per source, including the $13 million guaranteed that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/89JonesNTAF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@89JonesNTAF<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/974376661356564481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Jordy Nelson and Oakland Raiders Agree\u00a0to Two-Year, $15 Million Deal<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The release of Nelson from the Packers came as a surprise. The connection that he and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/R\/RodgAa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Aaron Rodgers<\/strong><\/a> had was one of the more terrifying in the league. His release made him the hottest wide receiver available on the market and it did not take long for him to get scooped up. While the relatively\u00a0small deal suggests concerns about his age and durability, there still is certainly potential for him with the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>His 2017 season was his least productive since 2010, back when he was buried on the depth\u00a0chart. In 15 games, he only had 482 yards with six touchdowns. However, this could be attributed to the injury to Rodgers. In the seven games that Rodgers started, Nelson had 318 yards. Backup <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/H\/HundBr00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brett Hundley<\/a><\/strong> found more of a connection with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/A\/AdamDa01.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Davante Adams<\/a> <\/strong>instead. It will remain to be seen whether\u00a0Carr\u00a0can get good chemistry with Nelson and get his numbers back up.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson played college football at Kansas State from 2003-2007. In his senior year, he\u00a0exploded onto\u00a0the\u00a0scene with 1,606 receiving yards and 11 touchdowns. He was selected as first-team All-Big 12 and earned All-American honors as well.<\/p>\n<p>He was drafted in 2008 by the Packers. While he was low on the depth chart early in his career, he eventually established a strong connection with Rodgers. In his career, he has had 7,848 receiving yards with 69 touchdowns. He went to the Pro Bowl in 2014 and was elected as second-team All-Pro that same year. He also was the Comeback Player of the Year in 2016 after returning from a torn ACL that caused him to miss the entire 2015\u00a0season and\u00a0still\u00a0putting up 1,257 yards and 14 touchdowns that year.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"8RYIJzz4Qv9D5oS5aoYsSw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/853116568\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'8RYIJzz4Qv9D5oS5aoYsSw',sig:'xseqhxNn-lqCL6sVNQEvJ0aafC2I-BVCJDeglzbtREI=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'853116568',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being unexpectedly released by the Green Bay Packers, wide receiver Jordy Nelson has found a new home with the Oakland Raiders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2355,"featured_media":40384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[275,231,61,833,40,157],"class_list":["post-40376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-raiders","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-derek-carr","tag-football","tag-jordy-nelson","tag-nfl","tag-oakland-raiders"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}