Green Bay Packers receiver Jordy Nelson is still attempting to find consistency in his comeback from last season’s ACL surgery.
“To me, it’s been all right,” Nelson said, via ESPN. “I’d like to be more consistent with what I’m doing, but I don’t know if that’s from having a year off and getting back or what. I’m still working at it. I’m halfway through. We’ll see how it is at the end of the year.”
Nelson has 38 receptions for 509 yards and seven touchdowns after eight games this season. If he continued that pace over the final eight games, he’d finish 2016 with 76 catches, 1,018 yards and 14 touchdowns.
Good numbers, but Nelson believes he can do more. His body might not be all the way back yet.
“I think it’s more just your body getting back to normal overall,” Nelson said. “If you take a year off from the game, the grind of the season, the recovery every week, all that I think is more part of it than the actual knee I would assume.”
Nelson doesn’t look quite as explosive, and Aaron Rodgers has only completed 38 of his 71 attempts (53.5 percent) to his top receiver this season. There’s room for improvement.
There should also be optimism. Nelson has been productive while still working his way back to 100 percent. The Packers offense—which has remained inconsistent with him back in the lineup—could use the steadying force of a healthy, explosive Nelson in the second half of the 2016 season.
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