Carson Wentz, Marcus Mariota Top Debut 2016 NFLPA Panini Trading Card Index
By Ryan Cracknell | Hobby Editor
Who doesn’t love a good list? They bring together information quickly and offer up plenty of opportunities to discuss and debate. Panini American and the NFLPA have come together to launch a couple of lists of their own to count down football’s best. The NFLPA Panini Trading Card Index is a quarterly collection looking at standouts from a hobby perspective.
Rookies and veterans each have their own lists. Topping the debut indexes? Carson Wentz and Marcus Mariota.
A series of criteria are used to create the lists including major football card sales, quantity of a player’s cards being sold, collector speculation and, of course, how they’re playing.
The plan is to update the NFLPA Panini Trading Card Index a few times throughout the year. The next list is expected to release in July as teams get ready for training camp. September will encapsulate the third quarter as the football season gets underway. The last part of the year will actually have two separate releases, one in early November and in the new year to wrap up the season.
2016 NFLPA Panini Trading Card Index – First Quarter
Rookies
1. Carson Wentz, North Dakota State
2. Ezekiel Elliott, Ohio State
3. Jared Goff, California
4. Derrick Henry, Alabama
5. Joey Bosa, Ohio State
6. Paxton Lynch, Memphis
7. Braxton Miller, Ohio State
8. Connor Cook, Michigan State
9. Laquon Treadwell, Mississippi
10. Cardale Jones, Ohio State
11. Kenyan Drake, Alabama
12. Sterling Shepard, Oklahoma
13. Josh Doctson, Texas Christian
14. Corey Coleman, Baylor
15. Dak Prescott, Mississippi State
Veterans
1. Marcus Mariota, Tennessee Titans
2. Tom Brady, New England Patriots
3. Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos
4. Todd Gurley, St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams
5. Jameis Winston, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
6. Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers
7. Cam Newton, Carolina Panthers
8. Amari Cooper, Oakland Raiders
9. Andrew Luck, Indianapolis Colts
10. Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks
11. Odell Beckham, Jr., New York Giants
12. Devonta Freeman, Atlanta Falcons
13. David Johnson, Arizona Cardinals
14. Tyler Lockett, Seattle Seahawks
15. Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings
Comments? Questions? Contact Ryan Cracknell on Twitter @tradercracks.
I don’t get it.
It’s a player ranking thing.
Who is Tyler Lockett. Where is J J Watt or Von Miller, Antonio Brown
It’s a marketing scheme. They rank players to garner interest. People tend to chase the top tier of the list (usually winners – game wise or statistically), so as the list changes changes, people buy more product to chase the latest and greatest.
Or, maybe, it’s just a player ranking thing.
Panini should spend less time making up lists and more time putting out products that justify their exclusive license. I need you to convince me you guys deserve it because other companies put out far superior products year after year.
Agree, Mike – Panini needs to spend more time and effort on customer service. Theirs, as it stands today, it a complete JOKE! I’ve been trying to contact them via email, calling, even filed a BBB complaint that wasnt answered, concerning well over a year redemptions.
It just looks like a Hotlist to me….