2019 Panini Unparalleled Football Forum

In the set, a a slew of "rookie cards" (1-200) are not rookie cards; some of the players played in 2018 and even in 2017.

Panini has done this in the past, so I'm suggesting a new note entry for these cards, PRC - Panini Rookie Card. Why not brand their weirdness, the same way they brand these cards? 

Unless someone magically fixed them in the past 30 minutes without a change log, I don't see a problem.

It's not about when they played in the NFL. It's about their 1st card. If they played in 2017 and/or 2018 but never had a card before, it's a RC card. Plain and simple. If they did have cards in 2018 or before, then the 2019 card is NOT a RC. Za'Darius Smith (#187) is the only card in the first 200 with a RC note on here. And that actually is his first true rookie base card!

If you are talking about RC logos on the card, complain to Panini. They printed it, but it isn't listed that way on this site. They do the same thing in NASCAR cards with putting a RC logo on the cards when it really isn't a Rookie Card. I guess they just don't understand what "Rookie Card" means!

I see what you're saying. I just think Panini is weird with it and have thought that since this Richie Incognito rookie card. It's from 2017 and he started playing in 2006. It's just weird. lol

Cards will get the RC note in due course.

Thank you for mentioning this. I just won one of these in a break, and couldn't figure out why Za'darius was a RC. It is definitely weird. I do think that rookie cards should only be for a player's rookie season. By their logic, if they create a new line of cards, does that mean every player is a Rookie? 

If it were anyone but Incognito, I would say it's cool that a guy in the league so long finally got a card.

No. A new line of cards would not create all RCs. What would create RCs is if a player went without a card in a major set and then received a card, then all cards of that player THAT year (only) would be RCs.

If that new line were perhaps Curling, then yes, they would all be RCs, since I don't believe a curling set has ever existed.  And yes, it does seem weird that a guy who has been in curling for 25 years could suddenly have a rookie card.  But that's the understood definition of the phrase.