2022 Panini Certified Football Preview

One of the hobby’s most familiar football card brands will return this fall.  Panini’s 2022 Certified Football will once again bring a wide variety of different elements.

Each Hobby box of Certified will have ten packs with five cards per pack. Cases will hold 16 boxes.  A typical box will include:

1 Freshman Fabric Mirror Signatures or Piece of the Game Signature
1 Additional autograph
2 Memorabilia cards
10 Inserts
2 Rookies or rookie parallels
3 Numbered parallels

Autographs and Auto Relics

Freshman Fabric Mirror Signatures (# to 399 or less) and Piece of the Game (# to 149) cards offer a variety of memorabilia content. Piece of the Game will include pieces of footballs, gloves and jerseys.  There will be no shortage of parallel possibilities.

Freshman Fabric parallels will include:

Bronze max #’d /349
Pink max #’d /299
Orange max #’d /249
Red max #’d /199
Blue max #’d /99
Teal max  #’d /50
Gold max #’d /25
Purple max #’d /10
Green max #’d /5
Black #’d 1/1

Piece of the Game Signatures will be numbered to 149, except for:

Red max #’d /99
Teal max #’d /50
Gold max #’d /25
Purple max #’d /10
Green max #’d /5
Black #’d 1/1

Piece of the Game relics will have unsigned versions as well.

Canton Certified Signatures are max numbered to 149 with a checklist made up of Hall of Fame players.  Parallel versions include:

Mirror Red max #’d /99
Mirror Blue max #’d /75
Mirror Teal max #’d /50
Mirror Gold max #’d /25
Mirror Purple max #’d /10
Mirror Green max #’d /5
Mirror Black #’d 1/1

New this year are Micro Etched parallel versions including:

Red Etch max #’d /25
Blue Etch max #’d /20
Teal Etch max #’d /15
Gold Etch max #’d /10
Purple Etch #’d /5
Green Etch #’d /3
Black Etch #’d 1/1

One hundred players will sign autographs for the Mirror Signatures subset, which won’t have memorabilia but will have some big names. Each card will be numbered to no more than 299, with these lower numbered parallels

Pink max #’d /199
Orange max #’d /149
Red max #’d /99
Blue max #’d /75
Teal max #’d /50
Gold max #’d /25
Purple max #’d /10
Green max #’d /5
Black #’d 1/1

Inserts

New short print inserts in 2022 Certified include The Mighty, Certified Stunners and Radical Rookies.

A popular insert within the Certified brand, 2022 cards return to showcase the top stars from this year’s rookie class.  Among the insert possibilities are:

Pink max #’d /199
Orange max #’d /149
Red max #’d /99
Blue max #’d /75
Teal max #’d /50
Gold max #’d /25
Purple max #’d /10
Green max #’d /5
Black #’d 1/1

Base Set

The base set will hold 200 cards, half of which will be rookies. Veteran parallels include:

Mirror #’d /349
Mirror Bronze #’d /275
Mirror Pink #’d /199
Mirror Orange #’d /149
Mirror Red #’d /99
Mirror Blue #’d /75
Mirror Teal #’d /50
Mirror Gold #’d /25
Mirror Purple #’d /10
Mirror Green #’d /5
Mirror Black #’d 1/1

Rookie parallel numbers will be slightly different:

Mirror #’d /399
Mirror Bronze #’d /325
Mirror Pink #’d /275
Mirror Orange #’d /149
Mirror Red #’d /99
Mirror Blue #’d /75
Mirror Teal #’d /50
Mirror Gold #’d /25
Mirror Purple #’d /10
Mirror Green #’d /5
Mirror Black #’d 1/1

The current release date for 2022 Certified Football is October 21.

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