Football Card Values & Price Guide
Football scans split between two worlds. The single most scanned card is a 1984 Topps Dan Marino rookie, but the busiest sets are brand new — 2024 and 2025 Donruss, Donruss Optic and Topps Chrome — because 2026 changed who makes NFL cards.
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760indexed card records
$0.06–$420,000recorded grade range
Guide coverage
Latest source update Oct 24, 2026What this guide includes
This guide currently covers 760 indexed card records across 180 sets and 60 years (1961–2026). The displayed estimate range is $0.06–$420,000. It reflects records available in TCG Value Scanner, not a complete manufacturer checklist.
Lowest indexed raw or primary estimateNate Newton$0.06
Highest indexed raw or primary estimateTom Brady$1,673
Values are directional estimates rather than guaranteed sale prices. Read how estimates and scan ranges are produced.
From the app
Latest scan Oct 24, 2026What collectors scan
Cards in this guide have been scanned 6,312 times in TCG Value Scanner. The printings scanned most:
- Dan Marino #123 1984 Topps Football 127 scans · 2%
- Josh Allen #304 2018 Panini Donruss Football 103 scans · 2%
- Joe Montana #216 1981 Topps Football 73 scans · 1%
Scans by set
- 2025 Topps Cosmic Chrome Football6%
- 2024 Panini Donruss Football5%
- 2025 Donruss Optic Football5%
- 2024 Donruss Optic Football5%
- 1984 Topps Football4%
Indexed estimates
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Panini, then Topps
For a decade, NFL-licensed football cards came from Panini: Donruss, Donruss Optic and Prizm are all Panini brands. On April 1, 2026, the exclusive NFL license passed to Fanatics and Topps, and the first product of the new deal, 2025 Topps Chrome Football, came out on April 15, 2026 — the first fully licensed Topps Chrome football set since 2015.
That is why the 2025 season appears under both companies in this guide. Ashton Jeanty and Travis Hunter, for example, have 2025 Donruss Optic cards from Panini and 2025 Topps Chrome cards from Topps. They are different cards from different sets, valued separately; neither is a reprint of the other.
Rookies at the back of the set
Donruss sets of this period put the rookies after the veterans, from number 301 on. Josh Allen's Rated Rookie is 2018 Donruss #304, the second most scanned football card in the app, and Patrick Mahomes's is 2017 Donruss #327. Donruss Optic reprints the Donruss design on shiny chromium stock, so check the finish as well as the logo: an Optic card and a paper Donruss card of the same player are separate printings.
The same trap exists in older Topps products. 1998 Bowman Chrome uses the design and numbering of 1998 Bowman with a chrome finish, so Peyton Manning is #1 in both. Tom Brady's 2000 Bowman #236 has a Bowman Chrome twin with the same number too.
The vintage cards people scan
- 1984 Topps. Dan Marino #123 and John Elway #63 are both rookie cards in this set, and Eric Dickerson #280 joins them. Marino is the football card scanned most in TCG Value Scanner.
- 1981 Topps #216, Joe Montana. His only recognized rookie card. The set is known for off-center printing, so look at the borders before anything else: centering is the usual obstacle to a high grade on this card.
- 1989 Score. One of the strongest rookie classes in any set: Barry Sanders #257, Troy Aikman #270, Deion Sanders #246 and Thurman Thomas #211.
- 1976 Topps #148, Walter Payton. His rookie card, from a set printed half a century ago, so original condition varies widely from copy to copy.
Before you compare a value
Find the number on the back and the brand on the front, then match both. A rookie from a 2025 Panini set and the same player in 2025 Topps Chrome can sit far apart in value, as can a paper card and its chrome twin. Each card page lists estimates from raw to PSA 10 for one exact printing, so the match has to be exact before the number means anything.
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