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Jordan Love One of Two Packers on PFF’s All-Breakout Team

Two up-and-coming members of the ascending Green Bay Packers landed spots on Pro Football Focus’ All-Breakout team. Of course, Jordan Love was one.
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Jordan Love One of Two Packers on PFF’s All-Breakout Team
Jordan Love One of Two Packers on PFF’s All-Breakout Team

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – Jordan Love has been a hero for the Green Bay Packers, who after getting off to a slow start upon replacing Aaron Rodgers helped pull the season out of the ditch with a string of superlative performances.

On Friday, he was a hero for helping a woman out of a snow drift after a blizzard descended on the Green Bay area.

Will he be a hero in his playoff debut at the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday?

While he didn’t land Pro Bowl honors despite ranking second in the NFL in touchdown passes, Love was named Pro Football Focus’ Breakout Player of the Year, making him a headliner of PFF’s All-Breakout Team.

Love has taken the league by storm – sorry, no apologies for the blizzard-related pun. During the first half of the season, PFF ranked Love 24th out of 33 quarterbacks. During the second half of the season, he was second behind only the 49ers’ Brock Purdy.

Over the final eight games, Love delivered elite-level quarterback play. Of 33 quarterbacks to throw at least 100 passes, Love ranked:

- First with 2,150 passing yards.

- First with an 18-to-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio.

- Second with a 112.7 passer rating.

- Second with 18 touchdown passes.

- Third with a 70.3 completion percentage.

On and off the field, Love has been exactly what the Packers were hoping for after moving on from the four-time MVP.

“It definitely is different,” offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich said. “I think with this amount of young guys, having Jordan there has been better because there’s more open dialogue, more, ‘Hey, we’re all going through this together.’ So, it’s not, ‘Do this or else,’ or ‘This is how we do it.’

“It’s kind of like, ‘All right, let’s try this. Does it work? OK, let’s go this way. Does it not work? OK, let’s try this.’ There’s more trial-and-error I guess, and guys going through it together, and I think it’s made us a lot better, for sure.”

The second player selected by PFF was right tackle Zach Tom. Facing a gauntlet of premier pass rushers this season, he’s allowed only two sacks. Plus, he’s made vast improvement as a run blocker, according to PFF’s grades.

In its preseason predictions, Christian Watson was projected to make the All-Breakout Team as a receiver. Injuries, however, limited him to only nine games, and the Packers have rolled mostly behind their talented contingent of rookies.

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BILL HUBER

Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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