2020 Panini Instant Draft Night Football Forum

For those still interested, this set is available for maybe another week on Panini's website right now as a 32 card complete set or indivdual cards from the base set (I think the parallels are sold out).  

I've created the set entries for this set and have the names/teams for the checklist but will wait to upload them until the cards are actually released. Right now, Panini lists them as 1-32, but knowing their history, the card numbers are probably something different. I'll just hang on until I can confirm the card numbers.

I must say, however, that I'm a little disappointed in the set. In the past, this set has been a 50 card set made up of every first round pick and then a selection of the better known names (typically QB's and other skill position guys) from the later rounds. Unless a team had traded out of the first round, then, you were guaranteed to get at least one player from evey team.

This year, however, Panini dropped the set down to 32 players and, worse, picked the players in advance. I know that the virtual nature of the draft this year pretty much eliminated the possibility of draft day photos, but they could have waited to determine what players they wanted to feature, or at least picked the obvious first round players.  

Instead, the set is overloaded with offensive skill players who, in many cases, didn't even get drafted until day 3. Only 3 out of the 32 players are defensive players, no offensive linemen despite 4 being projected as top 10-15 picks (3 were taken in the first 11 picks, 7 in the first round). Instead, we get a set with 15 wide receivers, a set that includes barely more than half the NFL teams, and a "Draft Night" set that includes only 14 of the 32 first round picks. Is it really reflective of the draft to have a 7th round running back, but not 4 of the top ten guys drafted?

Anyway, rant over, but I'm just really disappointed in the effort Panini put out this year...

Glenn