To see just how strongly TDs and INTs can impact the final rating …
If Love had posted the exact same statistics without the INT – meaning if the interception had simply been an incomplete pass – his rating would’ve reached 137.3, which would’ve been his career high for a regular-season game. (His near maximum 157.2 in the playoff victory at Dallas two seasons ago is his overall single-game high.)
Conversely, if Love had posted the exact same statistics but with just two TDs (instead of three) and one INT, his passer rating would’ve been 107.8.
In short, throwing TD passes of 23, 41 and 45 yards in length is a whale of a big-play day that not even one interception can mar too much.
Love nearly had a 120-plus passer rating with an INT last year when he threw four TDs against Arizona, but wound up at 119.5 (22-of-32, 258, 4-1). But it’s still awfully hard to reach a rating number like that with an interception, because it takes so much additional production. Even the four-time MVP Rodgers has hit 120-plus with an INT just three times in his entire career.
The other QBs in the NFL to hit 120-plus this year when throwing an INT are Seattle’s Sam Darnold (twice), New England’s Drake Maye, the L.A. Chargers’ Justin Herbert, and Atlanta’s Michael Penix.
Darnold actually lost one of the games, as a late INT set up Tampa Bay’s game-winning points. Penix is the only one to do it throwing just two TD passes, and Herbert’s game was almost identical to Love’s statistically. The stats from the 2025 games noted are listed below:
120-plus passer rating w/INT, 2025
141.0, Darnold at WAS (21-24, 330, 4-1)
135.8, Maye vs CLE (18-24, 282, 3-1)
135.4, Darnold vs TB (28-34, 341, 4-1, L)
126.0, Penix vs WAS (20-26, 313, 2-1)
122.8, Herbert vs MIN (18-25, 227, 3-1)
120.7, Love vs CHI (17-25, 234, 3-1)