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Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers and rookie cards of other elite QBs up for bid at PWCC
It’s been decades since the NFL has featured so many exciting, elite quarterbacks.
Not since the 1980s, when Joe Montana, Dan Marino and John Elway ruled the league, has the NFL had this many ultra-talented QBs leading explosive offenses.
Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are just entering their prime and young QBs Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert, Trevor Lawrence, Jalen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa are climbing the passing charts quickly. And though The GOAT, Tom Brady, has hung up his cleats, another future Hall of Famer, Aaron Rodgers, is now slinging it in New York and looking to take the Jets back to the postseason for the first time since 2010.
Their trading cards also continue to soar in value, sending collectors scurrying for cardboard of the league’s top signal-callers.
PWCC Marketplace has a host of rare quarterback cards in its August Premier Auction, which opened Aug. 10 and runs through Aug. 24.
The collection begins with Mahomes, the two-time Super Bowl-winning QB in Kansas City. With Brady retired, Mahomes is the NFL’s new cardboard king among active players. According to PWCC, he has accounted for 16 percent of all secondary football market sales since 2021.
PWCC’s latest auction features a 2017 Panini Prizm Gold Vinyl Patrick Mahomes II Rookie card #269 graded BGS 9.5 GEM MINT.
One of just five copies, the card is one of Mahomes’ scarcest cards, second only to his 1/1 Black Finite Prizms parallel. The card is a pop 2 with none graded higher.
Other high-grade QB cards in the auction include:
• 2020 National Treasures Holo Gold Justin Herbert Rookie Patch Auto numbered /10 and graded BGS 9.
Featuring a four-color Chargers jersey patch and a blue ink on-card autograph, there is only one example graded higher.
• 2018 National Treasures Green Lamar Jackson Rookie Patch Auto numbered /8 and graded BGS 9.5. Panini limited their Green RPA releases to print runs matching each player’s jersey number. As number eight, Jackson is one of only five players in the 39-card set with a card numbered to fewer than 10.
With a five-color patch featuring quadrants of Baltimore’s shield logo, the BGS 9.5 with a 10 autograph is the highest grade among Jackson’s Green RPAs.
• 2021 National Treasures FOTL S&S Blue Trevor Lawrence Rookie Patch Auto numbered to /10 and graded BGS 9.
In every First Off The Line box of 2021 National Treasures, collectors found one exclusive Stars & Stripes RPA. Lawrence’s Blue example was one of the hardest parallels to pull with a print run of just 10. The scarce parallel features a two-color block letter patch and a hard-signed Auto 10. None are graded higher than the BGS 9.
• 2018 National Treasures Silver Josh Allen Rookie Patch Auto numbered to /25 and graded BGS 9.5. Featuring a patch from Allen’s Bills jersey, this is one of just eight copies with a BGS 9.5 grade and boasts the highest subgrades.
• 2020 National Treasures Joe Burrow Rookie Patch Auto numbered to /99 and graded PSA 9/DNA 10.
With a two-color Bengals patch and a 10-grade on-card autograph, this is one of Burrow’s top rookie cards.
• 2005 SP Authentic Gold Aaron Rodgers Rookie Patch Auto numbered to 12/25 and graded BGS 9.
One of Rodgers most scarce rookie cards, it features a serial number (12/25) to match the jersey number he wore for 18 years in Green Bay.
• 2020 National Treasures Tua Tagovailoa Rookie Patch Auto numbered to /99 and graded PSA 10. Featuring a bold three-color patch and on-card autograph, only three examples feature a PSA 10 grade.
