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Review:
2006 Topps Draft Picks and Prospects Football (Review
by Bill Kovacs A.K.A. chiliwilly)
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2006 Topps Draft Picks and Prospects Football
Each sealed box contains 24 packs of 5 cards each in a 177 card base set including 55 Rookies 1:1, 10 Autograph Rookies (#`d to 199), and 2 Dual Autograph Rookies (#`d to 25). >>> Each box contains TWO Memorabilia and/or Autograph cards. Parallel sets: Chrome (Black, Black Refractor, Bronze > #`d to 499, Bronze Refractor > #`d to 299, Silver > #`d to 199, Silver Refractor > #`d to 99, Gold > #`d to 25, and Gold Refractor > #`d to 1). Inserts: Senior Bowl Standouts Memorabilia cards 1:24 (Jersey, Silver Foil > #`d to 50, Silver Foil Autographs > #`d to 50, Gold Foil > #`d to 10, Gold Foil Autographs > #`d to 10, Holographic Foil > #`d to 1, and Holographic Foil Autograph > #`d to 1), Autograph cards 1:48 (1st & 10: Single > #`d to 50, Dual > #`d to 10, Gold Dual > #`d to 1; Class Marks Rookie: Single, Silver parallel > #`d to 50, Gold parallel > #`d to 10, and Holographic parallel > #`d to 1; and NFL Underclassmen: Jersey and Silver Foil parallel > #`d to 50), and Printing Plates (240 total > each is a 1-of-1).
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Base Card Scan |
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2006 Topps Draft Picks and Prospects Football is a very nice designed set and the checklist has an all-star lineup. A real nice simplified design with all of the information on the left hand side of the card. The Topps DPP logo is located on the left hand side bottom as well.
The backdrop is the players team logo. Great lineup in the autographed cards also. Reggie Bush is featured in the 1st and Ten dual autographed cards with all the players listed in the 1st and Ten set. The back of the cards has a complete statistical listing of the players' 2005 year in the NFL.
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Rookie Card Scan |
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Most of the rookie cards have posed shots as opposed to action shots. The back of the cards have the players' stats from their last year of college experience. The rookie cards have the Topps DPP logo as their backdrop. We pulled (32) rookies from our 24 packs of cards in this box. This was a mixture of the regular base set and the Chrome parallel set. We managed to get (2) refractor chrome rookies (Abdul Hodge and A.J. Nicholson) out of our pulls from this box.
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Insert Card Scan |
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The inserts/parallels are very plentiful in this box. They include;
- (15) Regular Crome
- (6) Refractor Chrome
- (1) Bronze Refractor Chrome numbered to /299
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GU Card Scan |
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The odds were met with the two game-used Senior Bowl cards of rookie running backs Jerome Harrison and Andre Hall.
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The
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rate this box a 4 of 5 HI Fives. A very nice quality set for a reasonably low price. You can usually find these boxes in the $45 to $59 price range on the web sites I have checked. Good value for the money in my opinion. If you like collecting rookies; then this box could be what you're looking for. Of course we would have liked to have pulled an autographed card, but we did meet the odds as set-up. |
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