Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love was outstanding in his third season as a starter. Outstanding, in fact, might be an understatement. Detractors will point to several ill-timed turnovers, but any way you cut it, Love profiled as a top QB in the NFL last season.
Here’s a look at how he stacked up with the competition.
QBR (10 games minimum): 72.7, second
Passer rating: 101.2, sixth
Touchdown to interception ratio (8 TD minimum): 23 TD, 6 INT; sixth
Yards per pass attempt: 7.7, seventh
Anyone attempting to turn the Jordan Love conversation into a controversy just sounds silly. Pro Football Focus gave him his flowers in its Top 101 rankings for 2025.
PFF treats Love like the top-tier quarterback he is
Overall, Love checks in at No. 37, but that’s not particularly discussion-worthy one way or another given PFF’s position-weighted system. Far more revealing is the fact that, at quarterback, only Drake Maye (25th), Josh Allen (10th), and Matthew Stafford (sixth) are ahead of him. For all intents and purposes, PFF declared Love the fourth-best QB in the league.
“Love made a definitive leap during the Packers’ 2025 campaign, helping the team look the part of a Super Bowl contender before injury. His 88.7 PFF passing grade ranked second among qualified passers, and his 5.9% big-time throw rate also trailed only Matthew Stafford. Love diminished his turnover-worthy play rate from 3.2% to 2.6%, entering rarefied air this season.”
Does that ruffle any feathers? In Dallas? In Seattle? Among fans of the other Los Angeles team? (Delusional Bears fans may want a word. Congrats on the division crown, but just stop. Your boy completed 58% of his passes. In 2025.)
That’s to say nothing of Bengals or Ravens fans, but perhaps Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson get a mulligan, anyway, for being injured (eight missed games for Burrow, four for Jackson).
Somehow, though, Sam Darnold made the Pro Bowl over Love, whose two missed games are hardly cause for exclusion. Football fans of all 31 teams, and perhaps even Chargers fans themselves, know that Justin Herbert is an inexorable darling among analysts. Dak Prescott (fourth in QBR, third in passing yards) is the only one with a reasonable argument to be ranked above Love for his 2025 season, and, in the eyes of PFF evaluators, it wasn’t enough.
Nov 16, 2025; East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA; Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur and quarterback Jordan Love (10) before the game against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images
The quarterbacks ranked behind Love on the Top 11?
Herbert, 99th. Darnold, 93rd. Brock Purdy, 81st. Trevor Lawrence, 72nd. Burrow, 57th. Prescott, 45th. And that’s it.
No Patrick Mahomes, who, while few would dispute his place in the upper tier of playmakers, missed the last three games of the season with a torn ACL and had a rather mediocre campaign as it was.
No Caleb Williams (“The outrage! Did PFF graders even see the throw he dropped on the Rams in the Division Round!?”).
No Jared Goff (who, let’s face it, benefits from one of the league’s most stacked offenses).
Maybe, just maybe, we can put to rest all the nonsense this offseason debating whether Love can actually play quarterback in the NFL. Clearly, he can. And probably, rival fanbases, better than yours.
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