First-time Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks are rare these days.

But could Jordan Love be next in line?

Mike Greenberg of "Get Up," one of ESPN's morning shows, likes his chances the best.

"I’m a believer in Jordan Love," Greenberg said during a segment last week when he ranked his top five quarterback candidates who could break through and win a Super Bowl for the first time. "Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers are on the come (up)."

Love had the Packers in the playoffs this past season in his first year starting and during the regular season defeated the eventual Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs.

"This is not to say that Jordan Love is the next best quarterback in the NFL," Greenberg wanted to get across. "But I think he’s more than good enough and I have a feeling about that team. The Green Bay Packers are a sneaky, excellent pick to be in the Super Bowl next year."

Here's more context about recent quarterbacks in the Super Bowl and why Greenberg is so bullish on Love and the Packers.

When was the last time a quarterback won their first Super Bowl?

Matthew Stafford was the last first-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback during the 2021 season when he led the Los Angeles Rams in his 13th year to the championship over the Cincinnati Bengals in his home stadium.

Since then, the Chiefs' MVP quarterback Patrick Mahomes has been hogging the Super Bowls. He won his second and third titles in 2022 and 2023, respectively, and not long after their dramatic overtime win earlier this month over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII, Mahomes and the Chiefs were already talking about a 3-peat.

Overall, Mahomes has three Super Bowl championships in the last five years. And one of the Super Bowls he didn't win during this span was captured by none other than Tom Brady in 2020 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That was his seventh ring. There's not a lot of sharing going on with the Super Bowl wins these days for quarterbacks.

Jordan Love already ahead of Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers in Packers' team success

But Love showed many this year that he has what it takes to join the likes of his predecessors and raise the Lombardi Trophy one day. Could it be sooner rather than later? Oddsmakers have the Packers with the 10th best odds to win next season's Super Bowl.

Love took over for four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers after waiting his turn for three years. Love overcame a rocky start and put up historic numbers over the final two months of the season and into the playoffs.

So how will Love respond in his second year starting and fifth overall?

Greenberg cited the second years starting of Brett Favre and Rodgers when they took the next step.

"That's when they took off," Greenberg said.

One difference, though, between Love and those two is that he's already a step ahead of them. Unlike those two, he guided the Packers to the playoffs in his first year as a starter.

Favre's Packers in 1992, however, did have the same number of regular season wins (9) as Love's team in 2023.

Rodgers' Packers in 2008 went 6-10 in his first year starting before he broke through and had the Packers in the playoffs the next season. The Packers won the Super Bowl in his third year. It wasn't until Favre's fifth season as starter that the Packers won the Super Bowl in the 1996 season. He had to first experience playoff losses in the divisional round twice and once in the NFC championship game.

"He sat, he watched, he learned," Greenberg said of Love. "The second half of last season, he was as good of a quarterback as anyone in the sport. ... They are the youngest-good football team in the NFL. So they are only going to get better and better and they have him on a reasonable contract as well."

Who did Mike Greenberg have behind Jordan Love as the next quarterback to win their first Super Bowl?

• Brock Purdy, San Francisco 49ers

• Joe Burrow, Cincinnati Bengals

• Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens

• Justin Herbert, Los Angeles Chargers

A big reason he has Love ahead of three of those quarterbacks — Burrow, Jackson and Herbert — is because they play in the same conference as Mahomes, who appears to have his ticket booked for the Super Bowl every season.

"Those three play in the AFC," Greenberg said. "You have a much better chance of winning the NFC."

Mike Greenberg's fellow 'Get Up' panelists choose Joe Burrow as next quarterback to win Super Bowl for first time

All of Greenberg's colleagues chose Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow as the next quarterback to win his first Super Bowl. Burrow, 27, has already played in a Super Bowl and has defeated Mahomes in an AFC title game to get there. But he missed the team's final seven games this past season with a tore ligament in his wrist.

And Marcus Spears had another contender who advanced deeper into the postseason than Love and the Packers: "Where in the hell is Jared Goff?" Spears asked Greenberg, referencing the Detroit Lions' quarterback. "The Detroit Lions are going to get better. ... The Detroit Lions will be the scariest team in the NFC next year and I think that has a lot to do with how their season ended this year."

Like the Packers, the Lions lost to the 49ers in the playoffs.

"I think the Packers are every bit on an upward trajectory as the Lions are," Greenberg countered. And he'd also take Love over Goff.

Whether that results in a Super Bowl title first is to be determined.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Mike Greenberg has bold prediction for Jordan Love, Green Bay Packers