As 2017 Select Football XRCs Start Shipping, Panini America Delivers Must-See Reveal

On the surface, the fact that top 2018 NFL Draft picks such as Baker Mayfield and Saquon Barkley have licensed trading cards in a 2017 product that released months before the draft can be something of a head-scratching notion. Of course, these aren't just any Rookie Cards. In fact, they're not Rookie Cards at all. They're Extended Rookie Cards, or XRCs, inserted via redemption into Panini America's 2017 Select Football. It marked the second straight season that Panini America officials have utilized the XRC formula to help deliver, so to speak, tomorrow's top rookies today.

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On the surface, the fact that top 2018 NFL Draft picks such as Baker Mayfield and Saquon Barkley have licensed trading cards in a 2017 product that released months before the draft can be something of a head-scratching notion. Of course, these aren’t just any Rookie Cards. In fact, they’re not Rookie Cards at all. They’re Extended Rookie Cards, or XRCs, inserted via redemption into Panini America’s 2017 Select Football. It marked the second straight season that Panini America officials have utilized the XRC formula to help deliver, so to speak, tomorrow’s top rookies today.
Falling at a rate of roughly three per case, 2017 Select Football’s XRCs were inserted for unsigned versions of special Select cards featuring the top five QBs, top five RBs, top five WRs and top five TEs selected in the 2018 NFL Draft; in addition, cards were inserted for autograph versions of the top five overall picks. Why does any of this matter now? Well, because the completed cards started making their way to waiting collectors last week through the Panini America Customer Service department.

The unsigned base set features unnumbered base Prizms as well as Tie-Dye (numbered to 25), Gold (numbered to 10) and Black 1/1 parallel versions. Base Prizm autographs are numbered to 49 while the Tie-Dye, Gold and Black autograph parallels share the same numbering configuration as their unsigned counterparts.
We provide a revealing gallery of the cards in the following gallery. Enjoy . . .

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