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The lot: 2020 Panini NFL Sticker & Card Collection (10 packs)
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Keep reading for what was inside this one ..
Per pack: 5 stickers, 1 card
Sticker set completion:
50 of 563 (9 percent)
Duplicates: 0
Card set completion:
7 of 100 (7 percent)
Duplicates: 1
Notables on base stickers – Josh Allen, Christian McCaffrey, Tyrann Mathieu, A.J. Brown, Marquise Brown, James Conner, Mark Ingram, Adrian Peterson, Calvin Ridley
Rookie stickers – Chase Young, Cole Kmet, Derrick Brown
Foil stickers – Joe Burrow, Alvin Kamara, Dak Prescott, D.J. Chark Jr., AFC Championship Game, Tyler Boyd, Bengals, Rams
Base cards – Derrick Henry, Adam Thielen, DeAndre Hopkins (2), Derek Carr, Travis Kelce, Tyreek Hill, Courtland Sutton
Rookie Cards – None
Insert cards: 2 (a sampling of everything in gallery below)
Silver card (1) – Tua Tagovailoa (RC parallel)
Blue card (1) – Keenan Allen (/299)
Autographs/memorabilia: None
What's Buzz-worthy: I've been casually revisiting some of the releases of the last couple years in smaller helpings -- this being 20 percent of a box (50 packs) and it delivered really well in terms of what I was looking for. The Burrow foil sticker was in my first pack -- enough to pique my interest here in terms of easy potential -- and then by the end I had a card of the No. 1 name I'd want to find for my collecting needs, a Tua Tagovailoa Rookie Card ... but as a rarer parallel. Cards here have Silver, Blue (/299), Pink (/75), Gold (/10) and 1/1 Black parallels and I suspect you'll find a few per box based on this ratio -- and I'll bet a lot of collectors didn't even know that as it's mostly a sticker release and the card parallels weren't announced in any kind of detail advance ... just that there were cards and parallels. I didn't even realize the Silver was a parallel until I spotted a different Tagovailoa card online. (I figured all rookies were foils.) The cards here are simple and sticker-like in their looks (front and back) and the stickers are, well, simple stickers but the hybrid approach works for me -- and the packing may make some of the cards pretty condition-sensitive or at least more-commonly mangled. I'll probably grade that Tagovailoa despite knowing it will be a challenging one to get a top mark, too. The depth of this one also will create some challenges ... 50 packs in a box, 100 cards in the set so three boxes is likely needed if collation is perfect there. Stickers also will need about that many packs given its size. All in all, this small sampler surprised me more than I had expected ... I might do a box at some point just for the heck of it as long as I can find it on the cheaper side of things.
Product Grade: B+
Lot Grade: A (pretty much landed what I would have wanted, plus some)
Fun Grade: B
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