{"id":16550,"date":"2025-10-27T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16550\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:44:09","slug":"packers-qb-jordan-love-outduels-aaron-rodgers-steelers-in-runaway-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16550\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers QB Jordan Love outduels Aaron Rodgers, Steelers in runaway win"},"content":{"rendered":"

The defense did its part to slow Rodgers, but the offense’s ability to drive up and down the field, not punting in the second half, turned the game into a blowout.<\/p>\n

Love finished with a 134.2 passer rating, the highest of his career. Sunday night marked the QB’s fourth game with multiple passing TDs and zero INTs, the 16th such game of his career; only Patrick Mahomes<\/a> has more such games (19) in their first 40 starts, per NFL Research.<\/p>\n

Love’s near-perfect outing included a streak of 20 consecutive completions stretching from the second to the fourth quarter, tied for the longest streak in a game by a Packers QB with Brett Favre (Week 12, 2007).<\/p>\n

Setting records playing opposite Rodgers, whom Love grew under during his first three seasons in Green Bay, highlighted the quarterback’s breakout campaign. The 26-year-old has been dynamic with the ball, but cut down on the turnovers that plagued him the past couple of seasons. Love is a mixture of both his predecessors — Favre’s gunslinging mentality and penchant for the big play, and Rodgers’ efficiency and accuracy, especially on the move.<\/p>\n

“The legacy that [Rodgers] left, I would say Jordan’s filling those shoes,” Packers tight end Tucker Kraft<\/a> said. “When you’re talking about the Favre to Rodgers to Love, Jordan has stepped up and fulfilled his end of the bargain.”<\/p>\n

The QB has led the 5-1-1 Packers to the top of the NFC with an offense that has rolled over opponents. Green Bay has won four games decided by two-plus possessions; only the 7-1 Indianapolis Colts have more (five). The Packers have six games this season with 27-plus points scored (only IND has more at seven).<\/p>\n

Through 40 career starts, Love and Rodgers’ stats are almost identical.<\/p>\n

Love: 23-16-1 W-L, 7.6 pass yds\/att, 71-25 pass TD-INT, 98.4 passer rating
\nRodgers: 22-18 W-L, 7.8 pass yds\/att, 70-29 pass TD-INT, 95.9 passer rating<\/p>\n

“He played great, played fantastic,” Rodgers said. “He’s had a really nice season. He’s been really efficient with the football. He’s opportunistic, though I felt like he was very patient tonight. He took the run solutions, he took the checkdowns, moved in the pocket well. Thought he played really well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defense did its part to slow Rodgers, but the offense’s ability to drive up and down the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3269,3265,4917,9400,11914,139,3266,73,75,74,1833,12053,3267,9744],"class_list":{"0":"post-16550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-around-the-nfl","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-jordan-love","12":"tag-micah-parsons","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-pittsburgh","16":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","17":"tag-pittsburgh-news","18":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","19":"tag-rashan-gary","20":"tag-regular-season","21":"tag-tucker-kraft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}