Now extended, how does Jordan Love compare to the rest of the 2020 QB class?

Jordan Love became the latest (and last?) quarterback from the 2020 class to get a franchise-caliber deal. How does his compare with his peers?

A four-year, $220 million extension sounds daunting. No way the Green Bay Packers can manage all that money and still contend around Jordan Love, right?

Here’s the thing. Love only counts the full average annual value (AAV) of the contract in a single year: the final one. And that year becomes so prohibitively expensive, only an act of God would result in Love playing under the current conditions of his contract for that season. It’s a fake year, something the front office at Lombardi Ave. is famous (or infamous) for doing. They goose the value of contracts with years at the end of the deal the players likely don’t see and the agent gets to tout his bona fides with the AAV.

So, what does all of that mean? While Love will make plenty of money over the next four seasons, the Packers shouldn’t have any major problems putting a good team around him.

But all of this raises an interesting question: How does Love, now extended, compare to the his peers from the 2020 quarterback?

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