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I'm curious about Jordan Love's longest ever throw so I figured I'd bring you along with me on the journey. This is being written in the present tense. As you are reading this, I do not know the answer to this question.
As it stands I've got a dataset of 1,394 Jordan Love in-game pass attempts since he first took the field in preseason.
Love officially only has 1,319 career pass attempts on record, but I'm allowing any throws that were disallowed for penalties or any other reason to count here.
I'm not going to watch all of these plays, that's maybe a project for next offseason. Instead I'll get to work with some sweet, sweet filtering.
Now I don't have a filter for exact air yards. Otherwise you would have the answer by now. That probably exists in the big bad world of Next Gen Stats thanks to the chip in the ball, but I don't have access to that kind of data at present. So instead we might have to pull out our calculators and call our old pal Pythagoras with his special theorem. We'll see.
Speaking of Next Gen Stats, they clocked Jordan Love's touchdown pass to Tucker Kraft in last year's whiteout game vs. the Houston Texans at a blistering 61.98 miles per hour — the fastest completion by an NFL quarterback in the NGS era which unfortunately doesn't date back to the days of prime Favre and his piss missiles, but it is very impressive nonetheless.
The best filter I've got at my disposal is depth of target, essentially how far ahead of the line of scrimmage has the ball landed. Before giving much thought you would assume that will give us an easy answer, however this doesn't factor in how far behind the line of scrimmage Jordan is throwing from, or how much yards the ball is covering horizontally. A 50-yard sideline throw from the far hash is actually farther than a 60-yard throw right up the seam.
Jordan Love has 33 NFL throws that have travelled farther than 40 yards from the line of scrimmage. That sounds like a decent place to draw the line as I don't particularly remember any crazy deep cross-field pass attempts from 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage that could possibly slip through our filter here. It's time to dig out these plays and go watch.
The first thing I notice is not a single one of these plays came before the 2023 regular season. That means of the 192 passes Jordan Love attempted before becoming the starter, not one of them travelled farther than 50 yards. That canon was out of use for A WHILE!
In his first game as QB1 of the Packers, Love launched one deep ball in each half. The first one was on script, right down the pipe just barely overthrowing Samori Toure at 55 yards. The second one was very much off-script, a hospital pass to Jayden Reed which, per Pythagoras, went about 55 yards too.
A few more throws in and around 50-55 yards over the next few weeks bring us to our early frontrunner against the Raiders — yes remember that miserable watch in primetime?
Any time you overthrow Christian Watson, it's probably an indication that you threw the ball very very far. Love's throw goes from 20 to 20 (or just short of it). 59 yards vertically plus another yard for the angle brings us to 60 yards.
Calling this 60 yards in the air total. Absolutely unleashed this. pic.twitter.com/GIJXOB2j1U
— Daire Carragher (@DaireCarragher) July 10, 2025
A crazy scramble drill cross-field incompletion in Week 8 vs. the Vikings clocks in at 59 yards. Love doesn't even set his feet for this throw.
59 yards across the field just too long for Romeo Doubs
pic.twitter.com/7qW8Fe2Ve7
— Daire Carragher (@DaireCarragher) July 10, 2025
Love matched his 60-yard maximum with a fairly nondescript roll-out Hail Mary effort before halftime of the Panthers game on Christmas Eve. The ball traveled straight on a line from Green Bay's 37 yard line to Carolina's 3-yard line.
Into Week 17 of 2023 and we have a new frontrunner. Love puts one straight down the middle to Jayden Reed on a deep post. Reed loses this one ever so slightly in the air, allowing CB Akayleb Evans to recover just enough. This is 62 yards if my math is correct.
62 yards essentially dead straight from GB13 to MIN25 pic.twitter.com/2bKUJcIj7b
— Daire Carragher (@DaireCarragher) July 10, 2025
Into the 2024 season and after a brief injury hiatus, Love threw one of the most memorable passes of his young career in Week 5 at SoFi Stadium.
63 yards. Arguably the best throw of his entire career. pic.twitter.com/9n8EJllqqF
— Daire Carragher (@DaireCarragher) July 10, 2025
This is 61 yards vertically. Add in the horizontal yardage (around 15.5 yards) and we're looking at the 63 yards total. What a damn throw, just ignore the coverage.
Love would get close to this throw a few more times. 59 yards off play action vs. the Lions in Week 9, 58 yards on a brutal Christian Watson drop vs. the 49ers in Week 12.
Just when it looked like Love wouldn't exceed his Week 5 rocket against the Rams, he has given me a reason to whip out the calculator on quite literally his last throw of the season — yes the interception in Philadelphia.
This one might be close - oh nopic.twitter.com/0pSBizz1r7
— Daire Carragher (@DaireCarragher) July 10, 2025
Love throws this up from his own 49, outside the far hash. Quinyon Mitchell jumps for this ball, which would otherwise drop at least 7 yards into the endzone. As seen from the endzone angle, Mitchell is right in line with the bottom of the numbers — 12 yards from the sideline. Love is just over 21 yards from the far sideline, so the ball travels 20 yards cross field.
58 yards downfield, 20 yards across field.
Thanks to our friend Pythagoras, this ball travels roughly 61.5 yards, and thankfully this interception will not be remembered as Jordan Love's longest throw.
So we have a winner, and thankfully it's a touchdown! Love's 63 yard missile to Jayden Reed in the climate controlled warm air of Inglewood, CA is the farthest throw of his entire career.
I'll keep monitoring this going forward. Especially now that Love isn't carrying any injuries. His injured knee didn't look to have a massive impact on his maximum throwing distance last season, but every yard counts in this dumb little game that doesn't actually matter.