Aaron Rodgers. Brett Favre. Bart Starr. Lynn Dickey.
Jordan Love is one score away from becoming the fifth Green Bay Packers quarterback to throw 100 touchdown passes. He sits on 99.
Love is carving his own path in Green Bay, but it's impossible not to compare him to the legendary quarterbacks who came before him. As he nears his first major milestone on the career leaderboard, it's a good time to reflect on his journey so far and how it stacks up against the Packers' previous two starters.
There are shades of Rodgers and Favre in Love's game. He can launch a pinpoint pass off his back foot like it's nothing. He has some of Favre's fearlessness to take risks, but his touchdown-to-interception ratio is far closer to Rodgers'.
The numbers prove it. Here's how Love's soon-to-be 100 touchdown passes compare to his predecessors.
Jordan Love will join the 100-touchdown club in good time
Rodgers' 100th career touchdown came on his 1,777th pass. It took Favre significantly longer, reaching the milestone on his 2,026th pass.
Love hasn't become a centurion yet, but he's currently on 1,838 pass attempts. Barring something incredibly dramatic, Love will join the 100 club far quicker than Favre did.
Here's a closer look at the race to 100 touchdown passes:
What's particularly fascinating is that Love has spent much of his Packers tenure ahead of Rodgers' pace. The yellow "worm" on the chart is above Rodgers' green for a significant stretch.
Love has sustained a similar pace, but Rodgers' sharp rise correlates with the 2010 and 2011 seasons. Yes, that would be 1. The season of the Packers' last Super Bowl victory, and 2. Rodgers' first MVP year.
Rodgers threw his 75th touchdown pass in Week 11 of the 2010 season and his 100th touchdown pass in Week 5 of the 2011 season. He threw 27 touchdown passes to four interceptions in just 11 games.
Love hasn't exactly moved slowly. He threw his 75th touchdown pass in Week 11 of the 2025 season. It took him 13 more games to reach 99 career touchdowns, and he has a chance to hit that milestone on Sunday.
Rodgers and Favre had their similarities, but when it came to ball security, they couldn't have been any more different.
Favre could throw three interceptions in a game, but it didn't matter because he'd make up for it with four touchdowns. Rodgers, though, prevented picks at a historic rate.
While Love hasn't reached that incredible level of efficiency, he's far closer to Rodgers than Favre.
Jordan Love is far closer to Aaron Rodgers than he is to Brett Favre
Love's numbers almost mirror Rodgers'. If he can throw his 100th touchdown before his next interception, Love will have reached the milestone with only three more picks than Rodgers had at the same stage. Compare that to Favre, who had already thrown 62 interceptions.
Lynn Dickey had thrown 124 interceptions by the time he hit 100 touchdown passes for the Packers, if you were wondering.
It's why some of the national narratives about Love are still so frustrating. We often hear about his "recklessness," but Love has become increasingly safe with the football throughout his career. In his past 30 games, he has thrown 48 touchdowns to just 12 interceptions.
This chart highlights it further. It shows each quarterback's touchdown passes minus their interceptions.
Love fell behind Rodgers in his first 500 career passing attempts, but he quickly closed the gap and even held the lead.
Rodgers hit the milestone with 66 more touchdowns than he had interceptions. Currently, Love is at 62. Favre, forever the entertainer in a Packers uniform, was only at plus-38.
Love will always be compared to the two Hall-of-Fame quarterbacks he's following. And understandably so. He has traits of both, but many believe he's more Favre than Rodgers, when the numbers suggest the opposite.
The 18 different pass-catchers on the end of Jordan Love's 99 touchdown passes
It's always fun to see the breakdown of who caught the most touchdowns.
Look back at Rodgers' first 100 touchdown passes, and you'll see Greg Jennings' name appear 28 times. Donald Driver had 16, but Jordy Nelson only nine.
Christian Watson has caught 18 of Love's 99 touchdown passes, which leads the way, to the surprise of no one, I'm sure.
Watson, Tucker Kraft, Romeo Doubs, Jayden Reed, and Dontayvion Wicks combined for 77.7 percent of Love's career touchdowns. Only Watson and Kraft have a chance to be on the end of his 100th.
Matthew Golden is quickly rising. All four of his regular-season touchdown passes have come in 2026. Watson and Golden are currently on pace to become the Packers' most productive receiving duo in a single season – they're on track for 2,820 receiving yards, which would beat the 2,806 yards that Nelson and Randall Cobb put up in 2014.
And Golden could be the Nelson of this scenario.
Nelson was in the early stages of his legendary career when Rodgers threw his first 100 touchdown passes, and he only caught nine of them. Golden has four of Love's 99, but he's showcasing star potential this season. Don't be surprised if he sits atop the list when we're reflecting on Love's 101st to 200th touchdowns a few years from now.
Allen Lazard caught No. 1 in 2021. It was Love's first career start, on pretty short notice, against the Kansas City Chiefs in Arrowhead. Josiah Deguara took a screen 62 yards to the house against the Detroit Lions in the final game of the 2021 season when the Packers already had the top seed wrapped up. Yes, I said Josiah Deguara.
Love has a chance to become the Packers' fifth passing centurion against the New England Patriots on Sunday. He won't reach the milestone as quickly as the four-time MVP he replaced, but Love's numbers show he's much closer to Rodgers than he is to Favre.
Now, the biggest question of all: Who will catch touchdown pass No. 100?
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