Jordan Love was ranked No. 72 on the NFL’s annual Top 100 Players list on Friday, and Micah Parsons immediately pushed back. Parsons took to X and wrote that 71 players in the NFL are not better than Love, a public defense that turned a routine list reveal into a fresh argument about how peers see the Green Bay Packers quarterback.
The ranking matters now because the NFL is unveiling its annual player-voted list in weekly batches, and Love’s slot was part of the 80th through 71st group announced on July 10. He has made the list for the third straight year, but this year’s placement marks a continued slide from No. 34 in 2024 to No. 68 in 2025 and now No. 72, even though he finished last season with 3,381 passing yards, 23 touchdown passes, a 66.3 completion percentage, a 72.7 QBR and a 101.2 passer rating, with six interceptions.
That gap between perception and placement is what makes Parsons’ reaction land. Love was third in the NFL in QBR and sixth in passer rating last season, production that would seem to support a higher vote total than No. 72. Yet current NFL players were the ones voting during the prior season, and their collective ranking placed him behind 71 others even after a season in which he also stayed firmly on the list of the league’s top quarterbacks by efficiency.
Love was not the only Green Bay Packers player included. Josh Jacobs came in at No. 74 and made the list for a second year in a row as a Packer, while Xavier McKinney and Micah Parsons were listed higher last season at No. 30 and No. 36, respectively. The NFL opened its rollout on June 22 with the first 10 names, ranked 100 through 91, and will keep releasing 10 players at a time before the final 10 are unveiled each weekday between Aug. 24 and Sept. 4.
For Love, the immediate takeaway is simple: he remains on the NFL Top 100, but the direction has gone the wrong way for three straight years. Parsons made the counterargument plainly enough on X, and the rest of the list will show whether that was just a loud reaction to one ranking or a better read on where Love stands among his peers.
