With rookie minicamp behind us and OTAs just around the corner, let’s focus on Jordan Love and where the Green Bay Packers quarterback ranks among the NFL’s best passers. This ranking is based strictly on on-field play, without taking age, contract value, or long-term projection into account.
Love finished the 2025 season with 3,381 passing yards, 23 touchdowns, and only six interceptions despite missing two games against the Baltimore Ravens and Minnesota Vikings. He also exited early against the New York Giants and Chicago Bears, essentially missing another full game.
Still, No. 10 managed to put together one of the most efficient seasons among all quarterbacks despite playing behind an offensive line that delivered Green Bay’s worst pass protection performance of the last decade. Love finished the year second in EPA per play and adjusted EPA per play, third in completion percentage over expected, sixth in air yards, and seventh in success rate. Furthermore, he finished with the second-highest offensive and passing grades against the blitz among all quarterbacks.
And keep in mind, the last time we saw Love on the field, he arguably played the best game of his career. He threw for 323 yards and four touchdowns, putting Green Bay in position to win multiple times during their 31-27 playoff loss to the Chicago Bears. Unfortunately for him, Green Bay’s special teams completely fell apart when the game was on the line.
So, Jordan Love undoubtedly belongs in the top-10 conversation among NFL quarterbacks. The real question is where exactly he fits within that group. To make the ranking easier to explain, I’m going to separate the quarterbacks into different tiers:
The Untouchable Tier
This tier has the absolute elite: Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, and Josh Allen. I don’t think there is a single NFL general manager who would choose Jordan Love over any of those four to start a franchise right now, and that is completely fair.
I will also place Matthew Stafford in this group because he’s still an absolute baller. That said, I can absolutely see Love surpassing him sooner rather than later.
Right There With Him
This tier includes some quarterbacks I can at least entertain an argument for: Justin Herbert, Jared Goff, Dak Prescott, Brock Purdy, and Drake Maye.
I wouldn’t place Goff or Maye above Love right now. With Goff, we have consistently seen that when everything around him is not operating at a near-perfect level, his play tends to drop off.
As for Maye, the talent is obvious, and the future is extremely promising, but we also cannot ignore the elephant in the room: the New England Patriots’ 2025 schedule. If he maintains that same level of play in 2026 against a tougher group of opponents, then the conversation could change.
I really like Purdy, Prescott, and Herbert. Still, Love has done more with less than Prescott and Purdy.
Meanwhile, Herbert is slowly becoming one of the league’s most underrated players, even though many still recognize his talent. The problem is that the playoff failures, and especially the way they have happened, are becoming too significant to ignore at this stage of his career.
Those are all the quarterbacks that I believe have a legitimate case to be top-10 players entering the 2026 season, even though I technically listed 11 names.
I would place Jordan Love seventh, behind the five elite quarterbacks from Tier 1 and Justin Herbert. You could argue Love should be sixth, but I think most GMs would still be more inclined to start a franchise with Herbert right now. That’s not based on any insider information, just my personal feeling about how the league probably views both players.
Either way, Love is at the doorstep of the elite tier, and another strong season in 2026 will likely push him firmly into that group.
