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2014 Topps Chrome Football Rookie Autographs Guide

2014 Topps Chrome Football Rookie Autographs Guide

For nearly a decade, Topps Chrome Football Rookie Autographs have been some of the most popular cards in the hobby. Frequently boasting on-card signatures and a lot of different types of Refractor parallels, they're the kinds of cards that are highly sought after on a broad scale yet still, usually, relatively affordable. The 2014 Topps Chrome Football Rookie Autographs arrive with a large checklist with the season's top first-year talent. However, a large amount of short prints are making things tough for both player collectors and those opening large quantities of product.

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2014 Topps Chrome Football has 73 Rookie Autographs. This doesn't count parallels or other signed inserts like the 1985- and 1965-style cards. Cards also have eight different numbered Refractors, none of which are numbered higher than 150. With the set's large print run, it's making colored Rookie Autographed Refractors much harder to pull.

The most unique signature in the set belongs to Johnny Manziel. His base autographs (and the occasional Refractor) not only comes with a full signature (noticeable when you line up the other autographs and notice how many players are resorting to just initials) but a "Money Manziel" inscription as well.

The vast majority of 2014 Topps Chrome Football Rookie Autographs are signed on-card. Seven players have sticker autographs. This includes Henry Josey who has hard-signed versions as well. Of the sticker autographs, Jimmy Garoppolo is the biggest name.

Redemptions are even more sparse. As far as base autographs go, there might not be any outside of Refractors (and even those are limited). If there are any, it's Carlos Hyde and Tre Mason. At this point, neither have had any regular versions listed on eBay, though, so they might not exist.

2014 Topps Chrome Football Rookie Autograph Short Prints

Although Topps hasn't confirmed the existence of short prints, it looks like nearly a third of the Rookie Autographs are significantly tougher to pull. According to case breaker brentandbecca, who opened 24 cases and spoke with other breakers, there are 20 short prints:

  • 115 Derek Carr
  • 116 Bruce Ellington
  • 117 Odell Beckham Jr.
  • 120 Jadeveon Clowney
  • 133 Martavis Bryant
  • 134 Storm Johnson
  • 138 Sammy Watkins
  • 139 Tom Savage
  • 144 AJ McCarron
  • 149 Brandin Cooks
  • 158 Carlos Hyde
  • 159 Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
  • 164 Tre Mason
  • 169 Johnny Manziel
  • 173 Teddy Bridgewater
  • 185 Mike Evans
  • 187 Blake Bortles
  • 209 Bradley Roby
  • 213Eric Ebron
  • 219 Paul Richardson

Of these, not a single base autograph of either Carlos Hyde or Tre Mason were listed on eBay during the set's first week of release. Combined with a very limited number of Refractors, it could be that neither of the pair have regular autographs, just Refractors.

While not quite as tough, it also appears that there are the following are also harder to pull:

  • 114 Davante Adams
  • 124 Kelvin Benjamin
  • 130 Jared Abbrederis
  • 151 Logan Thomas
  • 150 Jimmy Garoppolo
  • 175 Aaron Donald
  • 177 Jarvis Landry
  • 195 Jason Verrett
  • 203 C.J. Mosley
  • 204 Darqueze Dennard
  • 206 Zach Mettenberger

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Stickers

The following players have sticker autographs:

  • 112 Henry Josey (on-card and sticker versions)
  • 118 Mike Davis
  • 130 Jared Abbrederis
  • 150 Jimmy Garoppolo
  • 179 Lache Seastrunk
  • 199 Jake Matthews
  • 200 Robert Herron
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Ryan is a former member of The Cardboard Connection Writing Staff.   His collecting origins began with winter bike rides to the corner store, tossing a couple of quarters onto the counter and peddling home with a couple packs of O-Pee-Chee hockey in his pocket. Today, he continues to build sets, go after inserts with cool technologies, chase Montreal Expos and finish off his John Jaha master collection.

User Comments

Stevee
Stevee

I LOVE how Storm Johnson is on the SP list. The others are probably 17-18 of the most desirable rookies and then…… Storm Johnson. Real nice Topps. Plausible deniability.

#ToppsTruth

Results of a 50 Case Group Break:

Die Cut Auto Paul Richardson, Bishop Sankey, Andre Williams
1963 Auto Cody Latimer
1985 Auto Bishop Sankey, Paul Richardson, Ka’Deem Carey
Patch Auto Tom Savage, Michael Sam, Jeremy Hill, Derek Carr, Davante Adams, Marquis Lee
Dual Auto Bortles/Carr
1000 Yard Club Auto Alfred Morris, Eddy Lacy
Abbrederis, Jared 8 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Adams, Davante 1 Camo Auto, 1 Refractor Auto, 1 Pulsar Auto
Barr, Anthony 3 Base Auto, 1 Pink Auto
Beckham Jr, Odell 1 Base Auto
Bell, Le’Veon 1 Vet Auto
Benjamin, Kelvin 2 Base Auto, 1 Pink Auto
Bortles, Blake 2 Base Auto, 2 Refractor Auto
Bridgewater, Teddy 2 Base, 1 Pink, 1 Variation Auto
Brown, John 13 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Bryant, Martavis 1 Base Auto, 1 Variation Auto Redemption
Campanaro, Michael 11 Base Auto, 1 Pink Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Carey, Ka’Deem 3 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto, 1 Variation Auto Redemption
Carr, Derek 0
Clinton-Dix, Haha 1 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Clowney, Jadeveon 1 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto, 1 Variation Auto
Coleman, Brandon 13 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto, 1 Pink Auto
Cooks, Brandon 2 Base Auto, 1 Variation Auto
Crichton, Scott 8 Base Auto, 1 Gold Auto
Crowell, Isaiah 11 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto
Davis, Mike 12 Base Auto
Dennard, Darqueze 8 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto
Desir, Pierre 12 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Donald, Aaron 4 Base Auto
Ealy, Kony 11 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Ebron, Eric 1 Variation Auto
Ellington, Bruce 1 Camo Auto, 1 Pulsar Auto, 1 Refractor Auto, 2 Base Auto
Evans, Mike 0
Evans, Shaquelle 9 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto
Fales, David 9 Base Auto
Fiedorowicz, CJ 7 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto, 1 Refractor Auto, 1 Pink Auto
Freeman, Devonta 11 Base Auto
Garoppolo, Jimmy 2 Base Auto, 1 Variation Auto
Gilbert, Garrett 13 Base Auto
Grice, Marion 13 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Herron, Robert 13 Base Auto, 1 Black Auto, 2 Refractor Auto
Hill, Jeremy 11 Base Auto, 1 Red Auto, 1 Camo Auto
Hoffman, Cody 15 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Hyde, Carlos 1 Pulsar Auto
Janis, Jeff 11 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto, 1 Camo Auto
Johnson, Storm 1 Camo Auto, 2 Refractor Auto
Josey, Henry 12 Base Auto
Landry, Jarvis 5 Base Auto
Latimer, Cody 9 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto, Superfractor Auto
Lynch, Arthur 11 Base Auto, 1 Gold Auto, 1 Refractor Auto, 1 Pink Auto
Lynch, Jordan 6 Base Auto
Manziel, Johnny 1 Base Auto
Mason, Tre 0
Matthews, Jake 10 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Matthews, Jordan 4 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
McCarron, AJ 2 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto, 1 Camo Auto
McKinnon, Jerick 12 Base Auto, 1 Black Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Mettenberger, Zach 6 Base Auto, 1 Gold Auto
Millard, Trey 8 Base Auto
Morris, Stephen 8 Base Auto, Pink Auto
Mosley, CJ 5 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Murray, Aaron 12 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Nicolas, Troy 9 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Norwood, Kevin 13 Base Auto
Richardson, Paul 4 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto, 1 Pink Auto
Robinson, Allen 13 Base Auto, 1 Variation Auto
Roby, Bradley 3 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Sankey, Bishop 12 Base Auto, 1 Pink Auto, 1 Variation Auto, 1 Camo Auto
Savage, Tom 2 Base Auto, 1 Pink Auto
Seastrunk, Lache 5 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto
Seferian-Jenkins, Austin 4 Base Auto, 2 Black Auto, 1 Refractor Auto, 1 Pink Auto
Shaw, Connor 7 Base Auto, 1 Pink Auto, 1 Black Auto
Sims, Charles 9 Base , 1 Refractor Auto
Thomas, Logan 6 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto
Verrett, Jason 5 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto
Watkins, Sammy 1 Camo Auto, 1 Pink Auto, 2 Refractor Auto, 1 Base Auto
West, Terrance 13 Base Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
White, James 12 Base Auto
Williams, Andre 8 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto, 1 Refractor Auto
Williams, Damien 11 Base Auto, 1 Camo Auto, 1 Refractor Auto

legendoflacy
legendoflacy

I feel your pain man. We got 4 cases and pulled 4 Jake Matthews sticker autos, (3) Bishop Sankeys, (2) Henry Josey, (2) Connor Shaw and a bunch of other no names that I would rather forget.

I well understand its not possible or highly unlikely to break even, but Topps knows who is and isn’t going to be big. There should be a better chance of pulling guys like Mike Evans, OBJ, Sammy Watkins, etc. etc. versus guys like Lache Seastrunk who just has a funny name. They need to do a better job of getting autos of potential stars like Jeremy Hill, Tre Mason, Donte Moncrief etc. instead of putting complete crap in the product!

Mike Pereira
Mike Pereira

2014 Topps Chrome sucks this year. Open up a case and a half and all I’ve got are mulitples of the same autos everyone is getting in hobby. No base limit means huge print runs of guys you don’t want. Save your money and buy on secondary singles. This is what I got from a case and a half: ALL BASE AUTOS TOO!!!!
(4)Mike Davis
(2)Henry Josey
(2)Lache Seastrunk
Robert Herron
Marion Grice
John Brown
Paul Richardson
Cody Latimer
C.J. Fiedorowicz
Jeff Janis
Storm Johnson

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