NFL media love to drum up discussion and controversy in the summer. With nothing to actually do between the end of minicamp and the start of training camp — which is fast approaching in just over two weeks — the league has to create attention for itself somehow.
Enter the annual NFL Top 100 list, which never ceases to be a source of debate. One might ask “what is the point of this exercise?” And they would be reasonable to do so. But again, it’s entirely a way to generate clicks, posts, and content,
and here we are again with Jordan Love’s placement on the list.
It’s not just the NFL itself, however. ESPN is getting in on the fun by having their analysts rank the top ten players at each position, lists that they have been gradually releasing over the last few weeks. Today the quarterback list is out and yet again, Love is underappreciated by the national media.
In this writer’s opinion, the methodology in that list is even more questionable than in the NFL’s Top 100. At least the latter is known to be effectively a popularity contest, with the players themselves voting on the rankings. ESPN’s list, despite being compiled from the rankings of individual football writers, didn’t even pretend to be objective about anything when faced with a potential tiebreaker scenario.
It’s how Caleb Williams gets into the top 10 over Jordan Love based on some squishy “he’s harder to defend” assessment rather than anything remotely tangible.
Let’s spend all of five minutes on this silliness and then look ahead to Micah Parsons hopefully taking out his frustration about his friend’s rankings on Williams in his return to the field in week 5.
Packers QB Jordan Love ranked No. 72 in NFL ‘Top 100’ | Packers.com
Start the discourse!
Jordan Love makes the NFL Top 100, but Micah Parsons is upset about it | Packersnews.com
Micah Parsons isn’t happy about where Love landed on the list.
Execs, coaches, scouts rank top NFL quarterbacks for 2026 | ESPN
Want to really get annoyed at the general perception of Love? He didn’t crack ESPN’s list of the top 10 quarterbacks, but Caleb Williams made it over him at #10 based on a seemingly arbitrary tiebreaker.
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Wanna bet that its instructions are to ignore its own resource-hogging?
