Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love faced a big challenge when he took over as the team’s starting quarterback in 2023. The Packers had just traded away Aaron Rodgers, a future Hall of Fame player who had won four NFL MVPs and led the Packers to a win in Super Bowl XLV. In his first two years at the helm, Love led the team to the playoffs in both seasons. However, this season, Love has taken his game to another level and for the first time in his career, he deserves to be selected to the NFC Pro Bowl team.

In his first year as a starter, both Love and the offense got off to a slow start. The Packers stood at 3-6 after nine games. Love showed potential but was learning on the job as were his young and inexperienced receiving corps. No wideout or tight end on the Packers roster had more than one year of NFL experience.

In the second half of the season, Love caught fire and the offense started to click. He played at an elite level down the stretch, throwing 18 touchdowns and just one interception in his final eight games. The Packers made the playoffs, and Love nearly had a perfect passer rating in the team’s upset in over the Cowboys in Dallas.

The 2024 campaign was an uneven one for Love. The former Utah State star suffered an injury in the season opener in Brazil and was never fully healthy throughout the year. He missed two full games and parts of others with assorted injuries. His mobility was compromised all season and that limited his ability to escape the rush and the accuracy of his throws. His quarterback rating went up slightly from the previous season from 96.1 to 96.7, but he did not match the elite status he showed in the second half of 2023.

Love started the 2025 season healthy and with five games to go, he has put up his best numbers yet. Love has completed a career-high 67 percent of his passes. His ability to throw downfield has improved and he is averaging a strong 7.7 yards per attempt and 11.5 yards per completion.

Most importantly, Love has not turned the ball over. He has thrown just three interceptions 361 attempts. His interception percentage is a career-best 0.8. His quarterback rating is a career-high 104.3. The Packers are 8-3-1 as they enter the final five games of the season and have a chance to win the NFC North and to be a high seed in the NFC playoffs.

Each year, three quarterbacks are selected to represent the NFC in the Pro Bowl games. Right now, Love is in the top three in quarterback rating, he is fourth in passing yards, fifth in touchdown passes, and second in interception percentage.

He has also stepped up as a leader on the field in his third season as the team’s starting quarterback.

Head coach Matt LaFleur has been impressed with Love’s growth as a quarterback and as a person on and off the field. When Love was announced as the Packers nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award, LaFleur expressed his feelings for his quarterback and his progress. “Just to watch his development — from a young guy coming in here to the man he is today — it’s just really cool to be able to be a part of that journey and to watch him grow, and to watch him embrace what it means to be the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, what he does for the community, and how he helps a lot of kids and just people in the community in general,” LaFleur said. “It’s been really cool to watch.”

If he continues to play well down the stretch, Love deserves to be one of the NFC Pro Bowl quarterbacks this season along with Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff.

 Of course, Love and the Packers hope he won’t be available to participate in the Pro Bowl games this year, which has become more or less a joke of an exhibition. They hope he’s busy preparing for the Super Bowl. Postseason success is perhaps the biggest obstacle currently preventing Love from being unanimously considered one of the NFL’s elite quarterbacks.