Sports Cards and Memories: Box Breaks: 2 Boxes of 2018 FOTL Contenders Football

Friday, January 11, 2019

Box Breaks: 2 Boxes of 2018 FOTL Contenders Football

I'm not going to lie...I'm 100% dreading this break. I don't honestly know why I even bothered with this stuff as I HATED opening this stuff 2 years ago. I'm just a sucker for FOTL product. Yes I could sell these boxes on Ebay..but I'm really hesitant to sell sealed wax on eBay, just not comfortable at all. So I'm going to bite the bullet and hope for the best. I've seen a ton of the breaks and they are terribly underwhelming. You're only real shot at something remotely good is pulling a exclusive red foil parallel of one of the top rookies, otherwise you're basically screwed. Also, the Red Foil Parallels are embarrassingly disappointing. They are barely distinguishable from the regular cards. Bracing for a bloodbath but hoping for a miracle. Here goes nothing

Red Foil Base Tyreek Hill
Zay Jones

Round Numbers
Saquon Barkley/Sony Michel
Mikah Fitzpatrick/Derwin James
Keke Coutee/DeSean Hamilton
Kerryon Johnson/Derrius Guice
Christian Kirk/Anthony Miller
Jaleel Scott/J'Mon Moore
Josh Allen/Josh Rosen
Denzel Ward/Jaire Alexander

Rookie Of The Year Contenders
Josh Rosen
J'Mon Moore
Courtland Sutton
Tre'Quan Smith
Michael Gallup
Bradley Chubb
Kyle Lauletta
Nick Chubb
Ronald Jones II
James Washington

MVP Contenders
Derek Carr
Antonio Brown
Alvin Kamara
Matthew Stafford
Matt Ryan
David Johnson
Philip Rivers
Carson Wentz
Kirk Cousins

Legendary Contenders
Lawrence Taylor
John Riggins
Dick Butkus
Charles Woodson
Emmitt Smith

Team Quads
Barkley/Beckham Jr./Manning/Shepard
Brady/Gronk/Michel/Edelman
Ridley/Freeman/Ryan/Jones
Mayfield/Chubb/Callaway/Landry

Rookie Ticket Auto
Cedrick Wilson Jr.
Tre'Quan Smith
Marcus Baugh

Rookie Ticket Auto Variation
Roquan Smith
Armani Watts
Trenton Cannon

Playoff Ticket Auto
Ryan Nall (#50/99)

Rookie Ticket Stub Die Cut Auto
Sam Hubbard (#52/94)

Rookie Ticket Red Foil Auto
Nick Chubb
Kerryon Johnson Redemption

Overall Thoughts: Well...it's always good when you set expectations low because it's easy to meet, however, I must say I was pleasantly surprised by this break. It's still probably not the absolute best, didn't pull a BIG gun, but two on Card FOTL exclusive autos of Nick Chubb and Kerryon Johnson (that one is a redemption), considering both guys have sold more than $100 a piece can definitely be considered a win. Also it's hard to pull 2 on card autos out of one box of Contenders so it was nice pulling the Tre'Quan Smith. Roquan Smith was the Bears' 1st round pick this past year and I pulled his variation auto rookie too. All in all not too shabby. Wayyyy better than Contenders Basketball that's for sure. Pics of the cards