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And he almost has 2,000 more cards than Wilt Chamberlain. 

I think there are players in all sports that never played more than a handful of games yet have more cards than some of the older stars that played 15-20 years.  Another sign of where the hobby has gone which truly is a disgrace.

There are some players that went undrafted and never played in the NFL that have more cards than some HOFers.  It's all about the card companies wanting to be the first to print a player's RC.  That's why Panini puts RC logos on college cards. 

Sounds like a subject for a Users List; Number of Cards vs Number of Games/Seasons

sandyrusty wrote:

I think there are players in all sports that never played more than a handful of games yet have more cards than some of the older stars that played 15-20 years.  Another sign of where the hobby has gone which truly is a disgrace.

UKboogie wrote:

And he almost has 2,000 more cards than Wilt Chamberlain. 

C2Cigars, good point. If we could figure a cards to games played ratio, I wonder whose would be highest. 

The cards-to-games ratio would drastically increase card-wise for the past 15 years or so and only continues to go up now. Tom Brady is probably the best QB in NFL history. But he was drafted #199 overall in 2000 and got 135 cards that year. That was considered ridiculous back then!

Johnny Manziel was drafted #22 overall in 2014 and a complete bust of a player. He was out of the NFL after 2 years, but he had over 2,500 of his total of 3,178 cards made in 2014!!! I don't even want to see how many cards there were for Trevor Lawrence this year. I'd guess at least 5k for him and that is only from a single company. A big chunk would be parallels though!