Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks Open Five Early Boxes of 2017 Encased Football

Tomorrow in hobby shops and on group break sites across North America, Panini America's 2017 Encased Football will begin becoming . . . shall we say "unEncased" . . . as collectors get their first chance at opening the product on release day. As you saw yesterday, the program celebrates its second year with a bevy of hard-signed autographs (including…

Kamara, Trubisky, Mahomes Headline Early Signature Returns in 2017 Encased Football

For the record, Panini America's upcoming 2017 Encased Football doesn't officially hit the streets until Valentine's Day. But there's a great deal of work being put in behind the scenes before release day ever arrives -- much of it from 2017's top NFL rookies themselves. Headlining the early list of autograph returns so far are key first-year superstars such as Alvin…

Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2017 Encased Football (Preview Gallery)

Just "encase" you were wondering, yes, Panini America's Encased Football is returning for another year. Following an auspicious 2016 premiere that featured compelling studio photography of the game's top rookies and graded cards hard signed by those same top rookies, Encased Football introduced a hit-heavy jolt to the 2016 NFL trading card roster. It plans to do it all again…