2024 NFL Kickoff! Football Card Rankings-Palooza! Rookies!
Starting a new tradition is always fun! With the 2024 NFL season beginning this week, we decided to rank a bunch of stuff for your football card-collecting pleasure!
Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!
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This is the FREE version of the “Happy Hobby Sports Cards” Newsletter, with the PAID version coming again next week.
🏈 2024 FOOTBALL CARD RANKINGS-PALOOZA!
To “kickoff” the 2024 NFL season, I thought it would be fun to share some football card rankings and such, for fun and for debate! Let us know what you think in the comments below!
🏈 Top 5 NFL Rookie Cards From 2023
C.J. Stroud – No. 102 – View on eBay!
Anthony Richardson – No. 104 – View on eBay!
Puka Nacua – 197 – View on eBay!
Bijan Robinson – No. 115 – View on eBay!
Jahmyr Gibbs – No. 331 – View on eBay!
Just missed: Sam LaPorta and Rashee Rice
🏈 Top 10 NFL Rookie Cards from the Past 10 Seasons
2017 Prizm Patrick Mahomes No. 269 – View on eBay! 4000
2018 Prizm Josh Allen No. 205 – View on eBay! 225
2016 Prizm Tyreek Hill No. 296 – View on eBay! 225
2017 Prizm Christian McCaffrey No. 249 – View on eBay! 200
2018 Prizm Lamar Jackson No. 212 – View on eBay! 200
2016 Prizm Dak Prescott No. 231 – View on eBay! 170
2020 Prizm Joe Burrow (No. 1 Pick) No. 307 – View on eBay! 120
2013 Topps Travis Kelce No. 31 – View on eBay! 125
2023 Prizm C.J. Stroud – No. 102 – View on eBay! 85
2022 Prizm Brock Purdy No. 353 – View on eBay!
Just missed: Jordan Love and Justin Jefferson
🏈 Top 5 Topps Football Card Designs Ever
1986 Topps Football
1959 Topps Football
1998 Topps Football
2007 Topps Football
1971 Topps Football
Just missed: 1984 Topps Football and 2008 Topps Football
🏈 Top 5 NFL Rookie Cards from 2024 We’re Most Excited About
Caleb Williams, QB, Chicago Bears
Jayden Daniels, QB, Washington Commanders
Drake Maye, QB, New England Patriots
Marvin Harrison Jr., WR, Arizona Cardinals
Malik Nabers, WR, N.Y. Giants
Just missed: Bo Nix and Rome Odunze
🏈 Top 5 Most Sports Card Collectable NFL Teams Ever
Dallas Cowboys
San Francisco 49ers
Pittsburgh Steelers
Green Bay Packers
Kansas City Chiefs
Just missed: Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots
Let us know in the comments if you think differently on any of the above rankings! We want to hear it!
🏈 ⚾ 🏀 HOBBY NEWS: SGC’s TOPPS CHROME $12 GRADING SPECIAL!
SGC President Peter Steinberg announced last week that SGC is doing another Topps Chrome grading special! Any year of Topps Chrome, any product! From Star Wars to the new basketball set, to last year’s Topps Chrome to 2024 Topps Chrome Baseball! That’s pretty sweet!
With a 5-10 business day turnaround!
I have a Bobby Witt Jr. Purple “Rookie Debut” card I’m thinking about sending in, along with some others. Let me know in the comments if you are thinking about sending some in!
PRO TIP: SGC’s shipping fees are $15 for 1-5 cards, then it goes up to $25 for 6-20 cards. What that means is – your average cost for grading rises from $15 each (with shipping included) for five cards up to $16.17 per card if you send in six cards. But if you send in 20 cards, your cost per card, including shipping, drops down to just $13.25 each!
🏈 ⚾ 🏀 ”SPORTS CARDS NONSENSE” NONSENSE!
We just celebrated our “Happy Hobby Sports Cards” Newsletter six-month anniversary last week, and in one of the crazier things to happen over this span was that we are now a recommended newsletter on the Sports Cards Nonsense Newsletter!
If you’re unfamiliar with the Sports Cards Nonsense franchise, they are unequivocally the best podcast in the hobby, hosted by Jesse Gibson and Mike Gioseffi.
It’s funny, informative and insightful, and their newsletter is led by writer John McTaggart, who is Jesse and Mike’s equal from a literary perspective. Please subscribe to them if you haven’t already – and support those who support me! Thanks!
🏈 ⚾ 🏀SUBSCRIBER GIVEAWAY UPDATE!
We just hit 200 subscribers to this Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter! That means we’re closing in on our goal of 500 subscribers, which will invoke our 500-subscriber giveaway of this sweet 1962 Topps Yogi Berra slab!
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🏈 ⚾ 🏀IF PATRICK IMHOFF BECAME CEO OF FANATICS: #8 of 23
Imhoff breaks down all the moves Fanatics should make, just two years away from when they unify the baseball, football and basketball card licenses in 2026. He shared his first move in our June 20 newsletter, and he’ll continue to share more of these going forward.
Here’s Patrick’s latest move on how he’d do things differently if he were the CEO of Fanatics:
No. 6 – Home Run Challenge Cards
These cards bring some excitement to the game. How fun is it to watch your selected player and hope for that home run? Unfortunately, they also bring some frustration: rainouts and injuries can render these cards worthless.
The first easy solution would be for rainouts and cancellations: If that was the game you selected, you would have the option of selecting the make-up game or just reselecting a new game altogether.
For injuries, you would have two options: Keep the same player for the next year or you would get access to another player on the same team as the one you selected.
Subscribe to Patrick Imhoff’s Substack newsletter and get his “Thrifty Thursday” column! He shares underrated prospects and rookies whose cards we might want to pick up!
🏈 Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments
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This book drops in a couple weeks, and I’ve already preordered mine. If you subscribe to JoeBlogs already, then you know what a great writer Joe Posnanski is, and you likely already ordered a book, too!
If you’re not familiar with Posnanski, he’s been writing for 30 years at places like Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, and NBC Sports, and he wrote “The Baseball 100,” which became a New York Times bestseller!
My man is a great essayist, and “Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments” is a collection of awesome essays detailing some great moments in football history. These include chapters on:
Ch. No. 86 - Ditka!
Ch. No. 89 - The Butt Fumble
Ch. No. 92 - When Philadelphia Booed Santa
Ch. No. 96 - Gronk!
Ch. No. 99 - Fantastic Finishes
As I mentioned, the book drops on Sept. 17, 2024, but you can preorder it now on Amazon, both in digital and hardcover form. I got the hardcover because I like to collect cool sports books! Enjoy!
Joe also wrote a book on “Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments,” which discusses the 50 most memorable moments in baseball, like Willie Mays’ catch, Kirk Gibson’s limping home run, and more. I’ll be getting this in the winter, preparing me for the 2025 baseball season!
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Those are some tough rankings to make, football is unique with offense vs defense and then QB vs WR vs RB. I would kick Dak out of the #6 spot though, just not sure he is that good. He is a solid QB, but not a top 10. I would move everybody up and then put either Jordan Love at #10 or TJ Watt at #10, give some love for a guys with more future potential (like Purdy being on there) or a defensive beast with tons of accolades already.