2018 Panini Contenders Football Cards – Rookie Ticket Short Print Runs

every single rookie insert for the blaster boxes is an undrafted player. I’ve gotten multiple players who aren’t even in the league anymore. I’ve bought over a dozen boxes and every single one is some garbage player nobody has ever heard of. they literally were not even drafted. none of them. I absolutely hate this set and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

Hey Trey! I just got my Josh Allen Draft Class redemption filled and it’s a little puzzling! There are autographs on both sides of the card. He’s the only one that I’ve seen that was signed on the back and front of the card. Would this be considered an error card? What are your thoughts on this? Much Mahaloz from Hawaii!!!

Idk why people get so excited over this junk year after year. $200-$230 is crazy for 5 autos of no names and then all base. Have never liked the design of Contenders but I will say this year looks way better than years past. Still though its one of the few products that is way over produced and I’m glad to not be involved in the hype. Autos remind me of Unparallel

I got a $40 megabox at Target, 14 packs, 8 cards per pack, 2 memorabilia and 1 auto per box. The base design was better looking than in years past, and I got 95 of the 100 vets, which I have to say is better than getting a ton of doubles. Although I liked the players in the three Round Numbers and three Legendary Contenders inserts, the other eight were boring and they all kind of looked blah. As always, the hits heavily influenced my perception of the box. The memorabilia were decent, Josh Allen and Derrius Guice color relics. The Rookie Ticket (sticker) auto was a variation version from kicker Daniel Carson. I’ve gotten so used to all the glitz and fancy inserts in most modern releases that I thought this one was underwhelming. It’s not like I’m going to throw out the cards or anything, I just found them kind of bland.

How can Hayden Hurst not be in the variation autos but have a print run of 25? Is it his base that is out of 25? Thanks

i wish they would stop putting panini rewards in boxes! they should be called panini conciliation. a no name rookie beats 150 crap points… so far 4 boxes opened and best was a mason rudolph on card… 19 autos and one rewards… not worth the 800+ ive spent… last year i rocked with a 1/10 mahomes, trubisky, 1/10 fournette out of 11 boxes… and last year i stopped buying boxes once they hit $170

I think the $200 price is too high. Five first round quarterbacks is fun to chase but the average box does not have big hits because of the large number of rookies. It has always been that way with this product but I love that they grew the product with rookie stubs and kept the playoff/championship print runs at 99/49 or less for base and 49/25 or less for the variation rookie ticket. Acetates are so expensive right now. For that kind of money I would look at a Flawless.

Just when you think Panini couldnt ruin the hobby more, they’re gonna release Contenders Optic every year now, so regular Contenders is obsolete now. So while everyone is wasting $200 on a crap box, i’m going to wait 1 more month so i can pay $120 for a 5 card box. Thanks Panini

Always enjoy this release. Getting harder and harder to get the top guys thought without trying to get more and more of it somehow. Received a Super Bowl Ticket auto of Chad Knoff (Cardinals Rooke), but it’s stamped 16/49? Aren’t Super Bowl Tickets supposed to be 1/1? Is this an error? If so, would you send back to Panini with letter if you were me?

Not sure what product you opened Matt, but I have watched 100+ hobby case breaks, and I haven’t seen 1 box with less than 5 autos, plenty with 6 or 7…and a 1 box break is questionable to start with. Panini has loaded these cases this year, pushing 2 (or more) top tier RPS per case, which indicates a much shorter print run than previous years. If you haven’t busted any of this product, or watched multiple case breaks, your input is useless.

I was in a box break of this and it only had 2 no name autos in the box

Contenders is one of the mainstay products of this hobby. I have bought it since day one of it’s release. I will admit that after 2015 I have slowed my roll when it became obvious there would be no way to finish an auto rookie set because of hold outs and the redemptions. I purchased 3 boxes today and pulled a Saquon Barkley so I am calling it good. Good luck to everyone else…

Saw a Jim plunkett super bowl auto for the raiders that was pulled on a break.

Contender Football is one of the few quality products for true collectors and chasers. Contenders on card autos of top Rookie QBs are awesome to collect trade and sell.

The Product is extremely frustrating with lots of autos only their mothers will love, but the best value short and long term is here.

Love the FOTL Red Foil, the variations, the SSP,the vets

Haters will hate.

the production run for the card numbers 1-100 is the LARGEST EVER for any print run by panini for any product.. even more than crazy 2014 World cup soccer madness..
Panini – please save some trees and dont make so many commons since no one does anything with them..
heres what I do with them.. every year ..
I dont a huge box of the commons to the local Boys and Girls club and the kids love it

Why are so many numbers missing?

#150
#166
#168
#174
#184
#220
#221
#222

Watch Out! Last year aprox. 35 Ticket rookie autos were slated to be released in the lame Rewards program…Guess What? It never happened LOL Talk is cheap and so is Panini !

The Contenders auto is always one of the premiere RCs to have of any young player, though the checklist will surely be muddied with a slough of irrelevant rookie autos.

I sincerely hope that Panini didn’t actually misspell Brett Favre’s name on his actual auto card as they did on the mock-up, a la 1991 Stadium Club.

Is there such a thing as Hobby Blaster boxes for this product?

Why is this product so expensive? Last year it was 140.00 at release. For the price I will just buy what I want. Is it me or has the hobby turned into a lottery the last 4 years. Take a look at previous years and those drafts were hyped too. I will pass this year.

Do you know if this is the same Contenders set that I’ve been seeing in Target over the last week or so? The blaster box is yellow instead of blue as the hobby box pictured. I’m guessing it is the same but since the box is so different I figured I’d ask.