Packers QB Jordan Love makes massive jump in tier rankings

The 2024 NFL season is expected to be the season of Love. Jordan Love, more specifically.

The Green Bay Packers' young quarterback dazzled in the second half of last season. He grew leaps and bounds from his slow start and ended the 2023 season as one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL — throwing for 4,159 yards and 32 touchdowns (11 interceptions) while leading the upstart Packers to the NFC divisional round in the process.

Love just may be the real deal — meaning he'd be Green Bay's third "real deal quarterback in a row — and the newly released NFL Quarterback Tiers ranking by Mike Sando of "The Athletic" suggests that the rest of the league thinks so as well.

Sando surveys 50 NFL coaches and executives each preseason to have them weigh in on the quarterback tiers, and in this season's rankings, Love made a massive jump. He moved up the rankings 13 spots, more than any other quarterback in the league.

Love is ranked in Tier Two meaning he can "carry his team sometimes but not as consistently" as the Tier One quarterbacks (Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow and Josh Allen).

“Of the guys I think that can ascend to 1, this is the guy that comes to mind,” a league defensive coordinator told Sando. “He’s got command of the offense, he can make every throw, he can make plays off-script, he can play on-script, he gets the ball out on time when everything is right and he is more athletic than you think. He’s got a playmaker’s mentality, and he started playing with a confidence that everybody can see."

Love checks in at No. 14 in the rankings, while last season he came in ranked No. 26 and in Tier Four, meaning he was "an unproven player (not enough information for voters to classify) or a veteran who ideally would not start all 17 games."

The other Tier Two quarterbacks for 2024 in order are Lamar Jackson at No. 4, Matthew Stafford, and Justin Herbert tied at No. 5, Aaron Rodgers at No. 7, C.J. Stroud at No. 8, Dak Prescott at No. 9, Jared Goff at No. 10, Jalen Hurts at No. 11, Brock Purdy at No. 12 and Kirk Cousins at No. 13.