Tapp-ing into the Numbers 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 6)
By JERRY TAPP
Green Bay Packers’ receiver Jordy Nelson is slowing moving up the all-time list of most career touchdowns by a Packers player in his 30s.
The now 32-year-old Nelson had 14 touchdowns receptions last season at the age of 31. That places him tied for fifth on the Packers list.
Here’s a look at the Packers players age 30 and older who have had the most touchdowns in a Green Bay uniform:
38: Donald Driver
31: Don Hutson
21: Carroll Dale
18: Max McGee
14: Tony Canadeo, Clarke Hinkle, Jordy Nelson
13: Boyd Dowler
11: Keith Jackson, MacArthur Lane
10: William Henderson, Jim Taylor, Charles Woodson
Looking at the whole league, Jerry Rice tops the NFL with the most TDs by a player age 30 or older. He had 109. He is followed by Terrell Owens (76), John Riggins (74), Cris Carter (69), Marvin Harrison (66) and Marcus Allen (65).
San Diego tight end Antonio Gates tops the active players who have the most career touchdowns at age 30 or older; he has 52.
Jerry Tapp
Jerry Tapp is a freelance writer from Racine, WI with a major concentration on sports statistics and numbers that define sports teams and players. He began his foray into sports stats-focused writing as a regular contributor to the “Numbers” column in Inside Sports magazine in the mid-1980’s and then began writing a weekly “Stats on Tapp” column for the Racine Journal Times. That column was eventually nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. He later wrote sports stats items for the Washington Post under the “Stat of the Day” heading. After launching his blog, www.statsontapp.com in 2011, Jerry turned his sports stats attention to sports websites. He wrote regularly for Bleacher Report, BallHyped, football.com and Heavy.com. Today he keeps busy writing weekly columns of stats-centric articles for three sports websites, Today’s Pigskin (NFL), Today’s Knuckleball (MLB) and Today’s Fastbreak (NBA), and as a monthly contributor to the Milwaukee Brewers “GameDay” publication that is distributed to fans attending games at Miller Park.