Jordan Love’s 2025 season gave the Green Bay Packers plenty of reasons to feel good about what comes next, even if ESPN’s latest quarterback rankings didn’t give him the same respect.
With the Packers set to lean on Love again and keep the wide receiver room largely unchanged, the quarterback has already shown he can handle that kind of setup. His 2025 numbers back that up, especially when it comes to the kind of thing that usually gets quarterbacks judged hardest: protecting the football.
Mina Kimes highlighted that point on X, noting that Love was one of the league’s best at avoiding turnovers. She pointed out that the Packers quarterback finished with the fifth-lowest interception percentage among qualified starters.
“Fun fact: Jordan Love had the fifth lowest interception rate of any full time starter last season,” the NFL analyst wrote on her post on X (formerly Twitter).
Kimes also pushed back on Love being left off the top 10, especially since ESPN’s list was built from evaluations by scouts, coaches, and front office personnel.
“It’s really hard to find a meaningful quarterback metric where he doesn’t rank top five,” commented Kimes.
The numbers from Love’s 2025 season support that case. He completed 291 of 439 passes for a 66.3 percent completion rate, threw 23 touchdown passes, and was picked off just six times.
Kimes also addressed the criticism that has followed Love, saying, “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.”
At the top of ESPN’s rankings, Josh Allen came in first, followed by Patrick Mahomes, Matthew Stafford, Joe Burrow, and Lamar Jackson. The rest of the top 10 included Dak Prescott, Justin Herbert, Drake Maye, Jared Goff, and Caleb Williams.
Love did still get recognized, landing among the honorable mentions. Sam Darnold, Jayden Daniels, Brock Purdy, Baker Mayfield, and Jalen Hurts were also in that group, while Bo Nix, Daniel Jones, and C.J. Stroud received additional votes from the panel.
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