2014 Panini Contenders Football Cards

I would have given a higher rating but I’m STILL waiting on the Jarvis Landry redemptions. It’s now February 17 2016 and they’re telling me that he didn’t return the signed cards yet !! Have you heard anything from panini yet ? Thank you

Ryan,

I’m starting to gather cards in this product and 14/15 contenders as well as 14/15 upper deck that are not on your checklists nor in beckett
specifically base or base variations numbered less then 25 , usually /5-/15
as well as remdeptions and rewards cards
lets chat sometime

thanks

-SEMPER

Not a great product but not terrible either. I haven’t bought a hobby box because of the auto checklist in general not really appealing to me and having the potential of getting crap in return. Of the packs that I have bought I pulled a Tom Brady cracked ice ticket and one auto of Tajh Boyd. Nothing amazing but nothing completely useless.

Just got a pack from Walmart because there isn’t a card shop near by but did get a johnny manziel jersey card. But no arizona cardnails out of my 5 packs they did make it to the play offs.

A little over a month since I last posted on here & I’ am fortunate enough to still be pulling big hits. Panini did an excellent job with the looks and detail of the contenders this season that I keep finding myself buying more, so I hope they keep it up next season.

Good pulls since my 1st box: PT VAR II 163/199 A. Luck, CT 84/99 G. Smith, RT VAR II Auto B. Oliver, RI Auto J. Amaro, & RT PP blk Auto J. Verrett along w many other neato big name parallels & auto’s. Still looking for that elusive (to me) cracked ice, Vet MVP & Legendary Auto’s though. Happy hunting everyone!

Am I the only one who bought a blaster box of panini contenders and pulled a complete base set #1-#100?! I think there’s no challenge in that! But I Like the inserts and puller a Rookie Variation Auto so not bad I guess but I was blowing my mind when I got a complete set off of one blaster!

I actively participate in Box Breaks on Ultimateboxbreaks.com.
I had the Colts and the Dont’e Moncrief Superbowl Ticket was pulled. Every year Contenders prove to be a fantastic product, Chasing the Variations is always a blast. I look forward to every year when the product is released.

I love panini contenders and the 2014 product is even better then the 2013 one. This is one product that I will always purchase love the jersey cards with the blaster boxes.

I just purchased a case of blasters and I couldn’t be happier with the results. It’s a great product really like what panini did with the cards this year great designs. Keep it coming panini great job.

So for this is the only product that Panini got right this year.

2 boxes opened:
5 autos with and unexpected bonus, each box had an additional hit auto or points in each one.

Each box had at least 1 solid sought after rookie auto and 2-3 meh players. A much better mix vs some of their products released earlier this season.

One thing that we did note was that there may be unannounced “hot boxes” as one of our boxes had all parallel hits.

Cons:
1. Michael Sam is till in yet another late/end of season product. Unfortunately for me, I got a Playoff Ticket auto of him.
I do not understand why they do not pull players that failed to make 53 man roster from the product. He was cut in October and this product was released in Jan. This is a major letdown for collectors.

2. I did understand the logic behind using sticker autos for low numbed hits.
We hit a Seastrunk numbered to 10 but it was a sticker auto. BUT you can get a non-numbered hard signed. So not sure what the logic is Panini but it think its a bit off.

So far Select and Contenders have been the only products that have been worth the money this year.

Picked up a blaster from Walmart and did pretty good. Bishop Sankey Rookie Ticket swatch and a Russell Wilson cracked ice numbered to 22.

I like the design and the quality of the cards. I also think Panini did nice job with collation as you don’t need to break several boxes to pull Star Base RC’s. I also think you have a good chance of pulling high $$ cards from this product. Championship Ticket Carr Auto /49, Jordan Matthews Cracked ice Auto /22, Pulled from 2 boxes. Multiple other nice rookies as well .

I opened 2 full cases as this is one of my all-time favorite products. I do like the card design this year but am disappointed with the lack of some great rookies as mentioned by other commenters. As far as what I got for my money ……. Well I could have gone to Vegas and had nothing to show for it. Maybe I have one of the super low print-run autos sitting in my pile and it will all be good.

As usual 5 nobody autographs 1 is a redemption and a stupid point card

Just scooped up my 1st hobby box and scored two Round Numbers Rnd 1 Sammy Watkins & Mike Evans RC & with their autos on the other, ROY auto Terrance West, Playoff Ticket of the gronk & a SB ticket 1of 1 auto of Stephon Tuitt…along w other rookie auto’s.

looks nice for the most part but really, no martavis bryant? this coming out so late and he has done wayyyy more than dri archer has.. topps at least has him in prime / chrome

Am I the only one that notices that C.J. Mosley isn’t in the Rookie Tickets checklist? Of all players I would like to think that the more than likely NFL Defensive ROY would be in here. Wow!!!

I know that the Redskins didnt have any first round picks in this years draft but why has Panini added cards for undrafted free agents when there are perfectly good drafted players like Breeland and Moses that do not have autos in this! Pretty disappointing.

Just opened a blaster box from Walmart. It had guaranteed a rookie jersey card which I got one of Andre Williams and other cards. I think the design is really nice and it was a fun pack and in my mind worth the money because I also got an auto. It was a Xavier Su’A-Filo rookie ticket auto that was really nice. I think I got my money’s worth.

Just picked up some from Walmart I like the texture feel of the cards I think there nice looking too!

Just bought two boxes- 2 stars at best! Way to go, Panini. When you are not cutting off heads of baseball players, you are putting out cards of poor photography for basketball and football.