Many analysts and experts effectively tell on themselves the moment they utter a word about Jordan Love.
They call him "turnover prone" or a "streaky" passer. Anyone who says that hasn't paid attention to Love over the past year and a half.
Fortunately, Mina Kimes is not one of them. She has watched Love closely, which is why she debunked perhaps the most infuriating and irritating myth about the Green Bay Packers' star quarterback: that he throws too many picks and is careless with the football. When asked about quarterbacks she was surprised didn't make ESPN's top-10 rankings by coaches and executives, Kimes named Love.
"I am puzzled by the omission of Jordan Love, who I actually have atop his division," Kimes said on ESPN's NFL Live. "It's really hard to find a meaningful quarterback metric where he doesn't rank top five. He was third in QBR, second in EPA per dropback, third in DVOA, which counts for opponent."
"Something that's brought up a lot with him as a criticism is taking care of the football. He had a lower interception rate last season than eight of the top 10 quarterbacks on this list, so I don't think that perception matches reality," Kimes added.
Mina Kimes shuts down the most ridiculous Jordan Love myth
Where does this narrative come from? It's outdated. Many watched Love early in his Packers career and saw a talented passer who takes unnecessary risks. The player who had 22 interceptions in his first two seasons as the starter in Green Bay. For others, it comes across as trying to confirm their priors and pre-draft evaluations of Love.
He is a different player now. Kimes is on the money about Love's low interception rate. To quantify that, just look at his past 22 regular-season games, dating back to Week 12 of the 2024 season. Love has six interceptions since then. Six.
That's fewer than one interception per three games.
We're also in full agreement that Love is the best quarterback in the NFC North. Caleb Williams has the hype, but he produced big moments and not consistent play last season.
Kimes continued:
"To talk about what I see on tape when I watch him – an aggressive, talented thrower of the football who can make every throw, all parts of the field, who compensates at times for what I thought was a pretty average at best run game and not a group of world-beaters at receiver. He just looks like a top-10 quarterback to me."
Kimes is one of the few actually paying attention to Love's development.
Last October, former NFL head coach Rex Ryan went on national television and proudly stated he had "no love for Jordan Love," adding, "and you know I never have."
Talk about trying to confirm your priors. Ryan pushed back on the statistics that show Love doesn't turn the ball over often, saying: "The biggest moments, he'll turn it over."
Ryan said that on October 21, 2025. At that point, Love had thrown two interceptions in his previous 13 games. Fast forward to the biggest stage of the season, the Packers' wild-card round loss to the Chicago Bears, and Love threw for 323 yards, four touchdowns, and zero interceptions.
In the "biggest moments," Love delivered for his team. Williams, now almost universally considered a top-10 quarterback, threw two interceptions in that game and then another three in the Bears' divisional-round loss to the Los Angeles Rams. Williams has as many interceptions in two playoff games as Love has in five.
One can only wonder how different the narrative would be had the Packers held on for victory at Soldier Field and made a deeper playoff run than the Bears. That's the true ridiculousness of it all.
Love will have an opportunity to silence his doubters when football returns in September. Until then, don't pay attention to the noise.
In an NFL media world filled with recency bias and hot takes, Kimes added a breath of fresh air to the conversation and debunked the most infuriating myth about Love.
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