{"product_id":"2018-panini-elements-lamar-jackson-78-rookie-auto-49-rookie-rc-football-card","title":"2018 Panini Elements Lamar Jackson #78 Rookie Auto \/49 Rookie RC Football Card","description":"\u003cp\u003e🏈 \u003cstrong\u003e2018 Panini Elements Lamar Jackson #78 Rookie Auto #\/49 Rookie RC Football Card – A Hand-Signed On-Card Autograph Rookie Numbered to Just 49 Copies From the Baltimore Ravens Quarterback Who Won Two Unanimous NFL MVP Awards and Transformed the Way the Quarterback Position Is Played in the Modern Era – Numbered \/49\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 The 2018 NFL Draft used its 32nd and final first-round selection to take Lamar Jackson, a quarterback from Louisville who had won the Heisman Trophy in 2016 with the most complete dual-threat performance the award's history had recorded, and who had spent two additional college seasons refining his game before arriving in Baltimore as the final pick of the round. The teams that passed on him 31 times chose differently – by the time Jackson had completed his third NFL season, the evaluation community had been required to recalibrate in ways it rarely has to do for a player of any position. His 2019 MVP season produced 36 touchdown passes, 1,206 rushing yards – a single-season record for a quarterback at that time – and a unanimous MVP vote that had not happened in more than fifteen years. The Ravens finished 14–2. Jackson finished with a Passer Rating of 113.3 and a rushing performance that defensive coordinators, even with an entire offseason to game-plan against it, could not fully account for. This 2018 Panini Elements Rookie Auto at #78, numbered to just 49 copies and carrying Jackson's on-card autograph from his first year in the NFL, is among the more limited of his rookie auto variants. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 Panini Elements is a premium product whose low-numbered parallel and autograph variants are among the more collected rookie signatures in the hobby for top-tier quarterback prospects. The \/49 print run on this Lamar Jackson example means fewer than 50 copies of this specific card were produced, placing the on-card autograph alongside a scarcity that the two NFL MVP Awards and the redefinition of the quarterback position have made increasingly relevant to collectors. His second MVP came in 2023, confirming what the first had suggested – that the 2018 draft's 32nd selection had become one of the two or three best quarterbacks in professional football. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ 2018 Panini Elements. Lamar Jackson. #78. Rookie Auto. Numbered \/49. Baltimore Ravens QB. 2x NFL MVP. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 Lamar Jackson. 2018 Panini Elements #78 Rookie Auto \/49. Ravens Franchise QB. 2x Unanimous MVP. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039645511912,"sku":"VTG-2018-PE-LJ-78-AUTO","price":1499.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/2018-panini-elements-lamar-jackson-78-rookie-auto-49-rc-football-card-vintage-treasures-734.webp?v=1770238855","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/2018-panini-elements-lamar-jackson-78-rookie-auto-49-rookie-rc-football-card","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}