Jordan Love has quietly built one of the NFL’s most efficient habits: he doesn’t get sacked.
That stood out immediately while digging into the Packers’ 2025 numbers ahead of the 2026 season. In 15 games last year, Love was taken down only 21 times, a sack rate of 4.57%.
That’s already a strong number on its own. But the bigger picture is even more striking: no active quarterback has been sacked on a lower percentage of his dropbacks over his career.
That kind of consistency is rare, because sack rate isn’t just an offensive line story. The quarterback is the one holding the ball, making the read, feeling pressure, escaping trouble, and deciding whether to throw, scramble, or eat the play.
Love does all of that well. He’s not some freak athlete, but he navigates the pocket, gets rid of the ball quickly when he needs to, and can still make a play without turning every escape into a throwaway.
The results have been steady. In each of his three seasons as Green Bay’s starter, Love has been a top-10 quarterback at avoiding sacks.
He has never finished worse than seventh in sack rate, and he has stayed below 5% in each of the last three years. Only Josh Allen and Bo Nix matched that feat twice in that span.
Allen had back-to-back top-two seasons under 4% in 2023 and 2024 before dropping to 8% in 2025. Nix has been excellent in this area since entering the league, and his 3.76% sack rate would lead active quarterbacks if he had enough years to qualify for the leaderboard.
Among qualifying quarterbacks with at least 1,500 pass attempts, according to Pro Football Reference, Love sits first among active players with a career sack rate of 4.27%. Patrick Mahomes is second at 4.46%, and he’s been pushed up by much higher sack rates over the last two seasons.
They’re the only two active quarterbacks under 5% for their careers. Jared Goff is third at 5.19%, followed by Allen at 5.3% and Tua Tagavailoa at 5.5%.
That puts Love in some pretty rare company. Pro Football Reference’s career leaderboard also includes unofficial sack totals from 1960 to 1981, plus AFL numbers, and Love’s 4.27% rate ranks seventh all-time. The six names ahead of him are George Blanda, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino, Doug Williams, Mark Rypien, and Drew Brees.
Aaron Rodgers, Love’s predecessor in Green Bay, is a much different story. Rodgers’ career sack rate is 6.42%, which lands him in the middle of the pack among active quarterbacks at 18th out of 34 and 89th out of 204 on the career list.
Rodgers was known for preferring a sack over forcing a risky throw. Love has taken a different approach, and so far it’s worked.
He’s willing to put the ball in the air more often, but he’s still keeping the negative plays down, and his accuracy on deep throws and under pressure has helped him turn those moments into positive ones.
That matters as Green Bay heads into a week one matchup with questions along the offensive line and a blitz-heavy Minnesota Vikings defense waiting on the other side. If the Packers were putting a more sack-prone quarterback behind this line, the outlook would look a lot different.
With Love, the Packers at least know they have a quarterback who has already shown he can avoid sacks at a historic rate while still making plays. On Sunday, they’ll need that version of him if they want to start 1-0.
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