John Nelson

5'9" · 159 lbsBorn July 11, 1998USA2019–2026

MLS Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

MLS profile

Peak 3Y VAL

0.1

2019, 2020, 2026 avg

Career VAL

0.2

Value Above League

Minutes

9,933

Goals

Assists

1.4

4.6

Playoff VAL

17.1

postseason

Career Shape

All-time standings

Career boards only, within MLS · corpus from 2013

Cross-sport prominence: 42.2th percentile among MLS careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Boards that rank MLS careers

MLS Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps MLS Career Arc Types MLS Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories MLS Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape MLS Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust MLS Journeymen MLS League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading Seasons MLS Loyalty MLS VAL Leaders — Value Above League Who Was the Best MLS Player Each Year?Career Twins — Equally Dominant Careers Across Different Sports Cross-Sport Era-Adjusted Careers — The Greatest Careers, One Axis Cross-Sport Era-Adjusted Seasons — The Greatest Years, One Axis

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Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Player bios, per-season advanced metrics (xG/xA/shots/minutes), teams, and coaches come from ASA's free public API.

American Soccer Analysis (ASA) — Free public API; facts extracted under Feist, courtesy attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	Min	A	Sh	SoT	KP	xG	xA	A/90	G+A/90	xG/90	xA/90	KP/90	SoT%	Conv%	G−xG	VAL
2019	20–21	FCD	521	0	2	0	7	0.03	0.44	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.08	1.21	0.0%	0.0%	-0.03	0.1
2020	21–22	FCD	782	1	2	1	1	0.06	0.32	0.12	0.12	0.01	0.04	0.12	50.0%	0.0%	-0.06	0.1
2021	22–23	FCD	608	0	0	0	5	0.00	0.35	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.05	0.74	—	—	0.00	0
2022	23–24	CIN	1,332	1	3	0	10	0.26	1.00	0.07	0.07	0.02	0.07	0.68	0.0%	0.0%	-0.26	0
2023	24–25	STL	1,397	0	5	2	10	0.40	0.63	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.04	0.64	40.0%	0.0%	-0.40	0
2024	25–26	LAG	1,324	0	2	0	5	0.05	0.65	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.34	0.0%	0.0%	-0.05	0
2025	26–27	LAG	2,288	1	9	1	12	0.34	1.03	0.04	0.04	0.01	0.04	0.47	11.1%	0.0%	-0.34	0
2026	27–28	LAG	1,681	0	5	2	2	0.23	0.17	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.11	40.0%	0.0%	-0.23	0

John Nelson

MLS Stats

Career Snapshot

All-time standings

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Where this data comes from

Career arc · VAL by season

Intelligence

Attacking contributor

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