The Overlooked 2025 Jordan Love Stat That Proves He’s a Top-Tier QB
As the Green Bay Packers lean heavily on Jordan Love to command their offense, expectations in Titletown are sky-high for the 2026 NFL season. While Love will have to maximize the receiving talent currently on the roster, his exceptional performance last season—highlighted by one specific metric—shows exactly why he belongs in the elite quarterback conversation.
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Taking care of the football is the hallmark of a franchise quarterback, and Love excelled at it in 2025. ESPN analyst Mina Kimes recently highlighted his efficiency on X, noting:
“Fun fact: Jordan Love had the fifth-lowest interception rate of any full-time starter last season.”
Last season, Love completed 291 of 439 passes (66.3%) for 23 touchdowns and surrendered only six interceptions. Despite these hyper-efficient numbers, Love was surprisingly omitted from a recent top 10 quarterback list compiled by a panel of NFL scouts, coaches, and executives.
Kimes voiced her confusion over the snub, pointing out the disconnect between his statistical dominance and his perceived ranking.
“It’s really hard to find a meaningful quarterback metric where he doesn’t rank top five,” Kimes explained. “Something that was brought up a lot with him as a criticism is taking care of the football. He had a lower interception rate than eight of the top 10 quarterbacks on this list. I don’t think that perception matches reality.”
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Beyond the box score, the film backs up Love’s standing as one of the league’s premier signal-callers. He has demonstrated the arm talent and aggressive decision-making necessary to stretch defenses.
“What I see on tape [is] an aggressive, talented thrower of the football who can make every throw, all parts of the field,” Kimes added. “He just looks like a top-10 quarterback to me. The kind that lifts up everyone around him.”
Respect from Around the League
While some evaluators may be hesitant to crown Love, his peers are already taking notice. After Love was ranked at No. 72 on the NFL’s Top 100 players list, Dallas Cowboys star edge rusher Micah Parsons publicly defended the Packers quarterback on X.
“71 players in the NFL aren’t better than Jordan Love!” Parsons declared.
For context, the executives’ top 10 list featured Josh Allen at No. 1, followed by Patrick Mahomes, Matthew Stafford, Joe Burrow, and Lamar Jackson. Dak Prescott, Justin Herbert, Drake Maye, Jared Goff, and Caleb Williams rounded out the top tier.
Love found himself relegated to the honorable mention category alongside names like Sam Darnold, Jayden Daniels, Brock Purdy, Baker Mayfield, and Jalen Hurts.
If Love’s 2025 interception rate and overall command of the offense are any indication, that honorable mention status won’t last long. Packers fans have every right to be hyped for what their quarterback brings to the table in 2026.