Matt LaFleur Says Jordan Love Beats Aaron Rodgers at One Key Skill
LaFleur calls Love's pre-snap protection work 'uncanny' — better than a four-time MVP. Love threw 23 TDs and zero picks in 2025.
QB14 value with a clean turnover profile and coach's full trust.
- Love: 23 TD, 0 INT in 15 games (2025)
- GB O-line allowed 40.9% pressure rate, 4th-worst in 2025
- Love's 4.6% sack rate ranked 7th-lowest in NFL (2025)
- Love is QB14, our rank #31 heading into 2026
- Only Stafford, Love: 9+ wins, 20+ TD, <12 INT each of last 3 years
Matt LaFleur coached Aaron Rodgers to back-to-back MVPs, and he just said the quiet part loud: when it comes to pre-snap protection calls and adjustments, he'd take Jordan Love over Rodgers. Speaking on NFL Network Monday, LaFleur described what Love does at the line of scrimmage as "uncanny" and called him the best he's ever been around at that specific craft. That's a heavy claim about a guy who threw 23 touchdowns and — remarkably — zero interceptions across 15 games last season (2025).
The context makes it more than coach-speak. Green Bay's offensive line was a mess in 2025, surrendering a 40.9% pressure rate, fourth-worst in the league. Love still posted the seventh-lowest sack rate in the NFL at 4.6%. LaFleur credited that gap directly to Love's ability to set protections before the snap, and it's exactly the kind of hidden competence that keeps an offense afloat when the trench play falls apart.
Why This Matters
LaFleur's point isn't purely pro-Love — it's partly a shot at how his relationship with Rodgers ended. The two clashed over scheme, and in 2022 the Packers drifted toward Rodgers' preferred shotgun-heavy, read-the-field approach, went 8-9, and missed the playoffs. Rodgers posted a 91.1 passer rating that year, the worst of his Green Bay career. Love, by contrast, came in with no habits to unlearn and simply ran the system as designed.
For fantasy, the takeaway is stability. Love sits as our QB14 (rank #31 overall) and put up 247 PPR points last season (2025), a clean line built on a zero-interception profile that mirrors 2025 MVP Matthew Stafford's turnover-free work. His form dipped late — his last five games came in 2.5 fantasy points below his season average — but that's more line-related noise than a talent flag.
The upside case is obvious: a quarterback his own coach trusts to diagnose defenses at an elite level, sitting a full round or two behind the top tier at his position. If Green Bay's line even climbs to average in 2026, Love's ceiling jumps with it.
The move: buy low on Love as a high-end QB2 or streaming plus option. You're getting a QB14 price on a passer with a rare turnover profile and a coach who just ranked one of his skills above a Hall of Famer. Draft him as your backup, and don't be shocked if he outproduces the ADP.
