By Andrew Tolentino | Football Editor

As soon as we finish processing and posting the video, you’ll be able to watch our massive, two-box break of Panini’s 2011 Prestige.

Now live, the first fully-licensed 2011 football product delivers both quantity and quality  in each 24-pack (eight cards per pack) box. It’s a lovable line, loaded — most importantly — with the earliest Rookie Cards of the season, insert variety and other hits worth showing off. Surprise players from last year, like Danny Woodhead and Jordy Nelson also supplement the nuance of the newest football cards on the market.

Since we busted not one, but two 192-card boxes on camera, we figured, “why not scan a few?” After the break is an 18-card look at the hits and some highlights from my half of the break.

Here’s one more, before the jump.

By Andrew Tolentino | Football Editor

As the 2011 video card war rages on, Topps is talking about its new football line — 2011 Topps Inception — dreamed up for a rare early season high-end release.

Due out in early July, the premiering premium product will be rookie heavy, mostly defined by top draft picks and supplemented by established stars. Each seven-card pack should deliver three rookie hits, including two numbered on-card rookie autographs or rookie autograph jumbo patches and one numbered rookie jumbo patch or Relic card. Four more cards — likely  featuring veterans — round out the rip in the form of two limited parallels and two base cards.

While the current artwork  features rookies  in airbrushed uniforms, Topps revealed that NFL-branded images and Relics will bolster the already dramatically designed cards.

Early product details indicate that this is a line marked by highly desirable hobby trademarks. Frequently falling on-card autographs and one-of-one parallels — for instance — should substantiate the price tag. Conceptually founded upon the inception of the football season, the new brand is built with the incoming class in mind. As card maker notes, “Every autograph and Relic hit is a rookie player.”

High-end hobbyists might reach for their totems (obligatory “Inception” movie reference), since the more expensive hobby brands usually don’t hit the market until late in the season — but we assure you, this is reality.

Andrew Tolentino is the editor of Beckett Football. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at atolentino@beckett.com. Follow his tweets at twitter.com/tolentinotweets.