Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love had a terrific 2025 season, throwing for 23 touchdowns and just six interceptions.
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The Green Bay Packers were arguably the most disappointing team in football last year. And perhaps no one did less with more than Packers’ coach Matt LaFleur.
Green Bay headed into the 2025 season with one of the NFL’s top rosters, then traded for star defensive end Micah Parsons 10 days before the year began. Suddenly, Packer Nation was dreaming of their first Super Bowl appearance since 2010.
Instead, Green Bay went a remarkably unsatisfying 9-8-1 overall and was the NFC’s No. 7 seed for a third consecutive year. The Packers then blew a 21-3 halftime lead in the Wild Card round against Chicago, gave up 25 fourth quarter points and eventually suffered a shocking 31-27 loss to the arch-rival Bears.
“No way you should lose games in this league when you’re up that much,” running back Josh Jacobs said.
Green Bay, which began the year 9-3-1, finished the season with five straight losses. The Packers now enter 2026 with the league’s fourth-longest losing streak.
Collapsing late in games was the story of Green Bay’s 2025 campaign.
Green Bay had double digit leads in the final minutes twice against Chicago and also vs. Cleveland and somehow went 0-3 in those games. The Packers’ odds of losing all three contests were 1-in-250,000, yet they somehow did it.
“That (expletive), it’s starting to get damn-near embarrassing,” safety Javon Bullard said.
Rebounding won’t be easy as the Packers were hit hard in free agency and didn’t have a first round draft pick.
Green Bay’s first training camp practice is July 29. Between now and then I will count down the ‘30 Most Important Packers’ heading into the 2026 campaign.
For the fourth straight year, quarterback Jordan Love is No. 1.
No. 1
Jordan Love, QB
Last season
Love had arguably his finest season yet in 2025.
Love had a career-best passer rating of 101.2 that ranked No. 6 in the NFL. Love completed 291 of 439 passes (66.3%) for 3,381 yards and 23 touchdowns vs. just six interceptions.
Love’s interception percentage was just 1.4% and his touchdown-to-interception ratio was 3.83-1.
Love finished eighth in the league in yards per attempt (7.70) and tied for eighth in explosive passes (16-plus yards) with 81.
When teams blitzed Love, it usually backfired as he posted a 109.5 passer rating against the blitz that ranked fifth in the league.
And while the Packers’ playoff loss to Chicago is one of the more forgettable nights in team history, Love did all he could to lead Green Bay to victory. Love threw four touchdowns, no interceptions and posted a 103.8 passer rating that night in Chicago.
Career to date
Love, a controversial first round draft pick in 2020, sat for three years behind Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers. Then, when Love got his chance to take over in 2023, he made the most of it.
From 2023-25, Love ranks sixth in the league with 80 touchdowns. He’s also No. 8 in passing yards (10,929) and yards per attempt (7.57).
Love made all 19 starts in 2023, threw 37 touchdown passes and just 13 interceptions. During a two-month window between Week 11 and Green Bay’s NFC divisional playoff game at San Francisco, Love threw a remarkable 23 touchdowns and just one interception.
That’s something Green Bay legends Bart Starr, Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers never did.
Love completed 409 of 634 passes (64.5%) for 4,625 yards and finished with a 98.5 passer rating in 2023. Love ranked second in the league in TD passes and seventh in total passing yards (4,159) that season.
Love signed a four-year, $220 million contract during training camp in 2024, then had an up and down second season as Green Bay’s starter.
Love suffered a sprained medial collateral ligament in the Packers’ Week 1 loss to Philadelphia and missed the next two games. He later missed half of a Week 8 game at Jacksonville with a groin injury and three quarters of a Week 18 loss to Chicago with a right elbow injury.
Despite those injuries, Love threw 25 TDs, 11 interceptions and had a 96.7 passer rating. Love ranked 19th in the league passing yards (3,389) and completed 63.1% of his passes.
Love had a passer rating of at least 107.7 in five straight games between Weeks 11-15, but was at 92.0, or less, the last four contests.
Love then threw three interceptions in Green Bay’s loss to Philadelphia in the NFC Wild Card game and had a season-low passer rating of 41.5.
When the season ended, many suggested Love had regressed in his second season as a starter.
“I mean, what is a step back is what I’d ask?” Love said when asked if he regressed in 2024. “Everybody has different opinions, things like that. You got to block that stuff out.”
Outlook
Love, who will turn 28 in November, has done his part in carrying on the tremendous quarterback tradition in Green Bay.
He can make every throw. He’s as cool as January night in Green Bay. He’s become more of a vocal leader and he’s highly regarded by his teammates.
Now, the No. 1 question around Love is can he take the Packers on a deep playoff run?
Love won his first playoff game in 2023, but has lost his last three.
Fair or not, players are judged by what they do in the postseason.
There are 35 quarterbacks that have won a Super Bowl. Fifteen are in the Hall of Fame and eight others are locks or likely entrees when they become eligible (Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Drew Brees, Ben Roethlisberger, Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford, Eli Manning and Russell Wilson).
Love has all the tools to become one of the NFL’s elite quarterbacks, but needs to lead Green Bay deep into the playoffs for that narrative to develop.
They said it …
“Jordan’s been awesome, man. Like every year, he just continues to grow as a leader, you know. His consistency is remarkable. Who he is on a daily basis, showing up, how he works, how he leads others, he’s pulling guys with them. So I’m really excited about what, you know, is in store for him.” — Packers coach Matt LaFleur on Love
“When I stepped away, it was just two seasons with him, right, so a pretty big difference in maturity, of the command of the offense and also, so it was a quite a few years difference there. But it was just a lot of fun when I step back in it and got to see him really running the show and him in complete control and the comfortability. I think one of his best traits is just that his cool, calm, collected mentality, and then just seeing that match with all the high-level functionality of the mental part of the game. It was really cool to see that when I got back – just a natural growth for his game.” — Packers quarterbacks coach Luke Getsy on Love
“For me, my biggest thing that I’ve noticed since I got back is just my feet in the pocket, trying to be as smooth and consistent as possible. When I go through my reads, get into my hitches and not getting antsy, not getting to that point where you’re trying to move through the pocket too fast. Just staying calm, staying relaxed, move through my reads.” — Love on what he focused on this offseason
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