2018 Panini XR Football Cards

I am new to collecting and curious on why there are no Chiefs base cards? Does anyone know the answer to this?

I cannot complain. Always buy my boxes from my lcs. First box pull a Raguan Smith 1/1. Hate Georgia SEC so I sold it on Ebay for $180 and bought what I wanted. Today, I had $100 and wanted some black Friday packs. Bought another XR. Low and behold and Zeke 1/1 NFL Shield and Clowney 1/1 NFL Shield. Also a 2/5 Daurice Fountain sick 3 separate patches plus auto and three patch (glove, Jersey and football plus auto numbered 66/199. Can it get any better buying 2 $100 boxes one month apart. A+ stuff.

I would have rated higher except that I don’t understand why Michael Strahan was repeated again for the 2018 Gilded Greats set. There are only 20 cards in this set and with so many deserving Hall of Famers, why on earth would you repeat Michael Strahan in the 2018 set? He is the only one from the 2017 Gilded Greats set that was repeated. Did someone screw up and not realize he was already in the previous year’s set? I don’t get it.

So the good part of this product: the cards look great. The team logos in the background with the player in the foreground looks nice, especially when it comes to the parallels. Inserts also look pretty solid, too.

The bad, however, is that the product more often than not offers incredibly bad value for money. A $100 box netted me an /199 Braxton Berrios auto and a Keke Coutee redemption, along with a Kalen Ballage jersey relic /25. The lowest-numbered parallel in amongst this was /99.

Good stuff can come out of this product, but the majority of the breaks I have seen online have ended with a similar box full of mid-to-late rounders who may not even have made the final roster or not. Given the price point and the number of cards, that’s pretty unacceptable.

This product could be nice, but it needs better hit distribution or a lower price. As it is now, it’s hard to recommend.

i have noticed that cards,made by panini,
in 2018 football, that are sold on ebay,look in really bad condition,you would think that the money a person has to pay for a box,the cards coming out would be in mint condition,but they are not,and how come the cards,are not hard signed,who wants cards that the player autographed are
on a sticker,cheap company.

Really nice looking cards but photo shoot jersey cards are a big negative. Look when jersey cards were first released years ago as insert the card manufactures could get away with photo shoot jersey because the idea of having an actually piece of the jersey was a cool new concept but nowadays when most jersey cards are a dime a dozen photo shoot jersey cards are a complete waste of time. Look if a card manufacturer is insistent on using photo set jerseys they need to be at least serial numbered with patches, tags, or multicolored swatches to at least make up for it.

A follow up to my previous rating. Changing my rating to a 1 star due to the fact that players like Bo Scarbrough are in the set. He didn’t even make the team!

Well designed and great looking. Unfortunately, that is where the positives end. Player/Event worn material with sticker autos. If you can give stickers to players for autos, you can very easily provide them cards to actually autograph. Won’t be a product I will be purchasing, nor will I be participating in any breaks.

Some of the sickest 1/1 Laundry Tag and Shields.

Always a great product every year.

Just another Panini product with event worn relic cards. I don’t want a Barkley jersey card, or any other rookie, with a jersey he wore to the rookie phot shoot. I want game used. Especially if I’m buying something that’s giving me only 14 cards for over $100.00. This is also the 5th product, that I can think of, so far, for this season & it’s still over a month before the season starts. Panini is causing me to lose interest in the hobby. I’ve been collecting since 1980 & I think it’s time to just stick with baseball.