NFL’s increasingly skeptical view of Jordan Love prompted Micah Parsons to deliver a strong defense of the Packers quarterback
Jordan Love ranked 72nd on NFL top 100 list despite career-best 2025 season, proving how nationally undervalued Packers QB remains.
The NFL top 100 players list, voted on by fellow league players, ranked Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love as the 72nd-best player in football. That number is absurd for a quarterback who set career highs across the board last season, and it reveals how undervalued Love remains on the national stage.
What makes this ranking even more baffling is the trajectory. After his first season as a starter, Love came in at No. 34. The following year, he dropped to No. 68. Now, after his best statistical season yet, he falls again to No. 72. The better Love plays, the lower his peers seem to rank him.
Packers star edge defender Micah Parsons went on social media to defend his quarterback, and rightfully so.
The numbers tell a different story
Love’s 2025 season produced career highs in completion percentage (66.3) and passer rating (101.2), the first time he surpassed the 100 mark in that category. The advanced metrics paint an even clearer picture of how efficient the Packers quarterback was.
Love finished second in adjusted EPA per play, seventh in success rate, third in completion percentage over expectation, and sixth in air yards. Those are elite numbers across the board, and they place him firmly among the best quarterbacks in the league by any objective measure.
Three quarterbacks have appeared on the list before Love. Baker Mayfield landed at No. 77, Brock Purdy at No. 85, and Bryce Young at No. 98. That means some worse quarterbacks will most likely be ahead of Love on the final list. The possibility of Chicago Bears’ Caleb Williams appearing ahead of Love, for example, makes the list even harder to take seriously.
The list has a credibility problem
This is not a new issue. The NFL top 100 list has produced questionable results for years, and this cycle already has glaring examples. Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young ranked ahead of Indianapolis Colts guard Quenton Nelson, and Chicago Bears edge defender Montez Sweat placed ahead of Kansas City Chiefs center Creed Humphrey. Both outcomes reflect a total lack of understanding when it comes to individual value and on-field production.
The cross-position comparisons are bad enough, but the list struggles to get same-position rankings right too. Players voting on this list don’t watch every game across the league, and the results reflect that limitation.
There is no reason to assign too much weight to what amounts to an offseason popularity contest. The list is entertainment content for the NFL, and the methodology has never been rigorous.
But ranking Jordan Love roughly 40 spots lower than where he sat after his first year as a starter, despite measurable improvement in every major passing category, speaks to a broader reality. Love has been nationally undervalued throughout his first three seasons as Green Bay’s starting quarterback, but the Packers know what they have.