🏈 Kyle Pitts 2021 Panini Rookie & Stars #111 Pulsar Prizm Rookie RC PSA 10 GEM MINT — Atlanta Falcons Tight End — University of Florida Gators — #4 Overall Pick 2021 NFL Draft — Tampa Catholic High School Tampa Florida — A Tight End Who Ran a 4.44 — PSA 10 GEM MINT Certified — The Pulsar Prizm Parallel in the Rookie & Stars Product

🏈 A PSA 10 GEM MINT certified Kyle Pitts 2021 Panini Rookie & Stars #111 Pulsar Prizm rookie card — from the Panini Rookie & Stars football product in its Pulsar Prizm parallel, which applies a pulsating circular pattern prizm treatment to the card's surface creating a radial light-dispersal visual effect distinct from the standard Rookie & Stars base card design. Kyle Pitts, the Atlanta Falcons tight end selected fourth overall in the 2021 NFL Draft, represented at the time of his selection the most athletically unprecedented tight end prospect the NFL scouting community had evaluated in the modern era: a player who ran the 40-yard dash in 4.44 seconds at his Pro Day and recorded receiving statistics in college that looked like wide receiver numbers rather than tight end numbers. PSA 10 GEM MINT: the maximum grade. Condition: NOS.

🌟 Tampa, Florida — Tampa Catholic High School — University of Florida — The Athletic Profile That Redefined What 'Tight End' Could Mean

Kyle Pitts grew up in Tampa, Florida, and attended Tampa Catholic High School — a private Catholic secondary school in the Hyde Park neighborhood whose athletic programs have produced a disproportionate number of professional and Division I athletes given the school's size. He was recruited to the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he played under head coach Dan Mullen for the Gators, and at Florida he established himself as the most productive tight end in the program's history and arguably in the history of the position at the college level. In a COVID-shortened 2020 season of just eight games, Kyle Pitts caught 43 passes for 770 yards and 12 touchdowns — 14.2 yards per reception and a 96.25-yards-per-game receiving average that no tight end had approached in college football. He was a Biletnikoff Award finalist (given to college football's best receiver) as a tight end — the position distinction alone made the nomination historically unusual. Condition: NOS.

⭐ Atlanta Falcons — #4 Overall Pick — The 2021 NFL Draft — The Most Athletically Talented Tight End in Draft History

The Atlanta Falcons selected Kyle Pitts with the fourth overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft — the highest a tight end had ever been selected in the history of the NFL Draft to that point, a selection that reflected the consensus among talent evaluators that his athletic profile was not a tight end athletic profile in the conventional sense but something that had to be evaluated with a different framework entirely. At 6'6'' and 245 pounds with a 4.44 forty, a 35.5-inch vertical jump, and hands measured at nearly 11 inches, Kyle Pitts combined the size and blocking-era potential of a traditional tight end with the route-running separation and ball-tracking ability of a slot receiver. NFL teams selecting in the top five of a draft are selecting players they believe could define their offense for a decade — the Falcons' selection of Pitts at four signaled that they believed the position he played, when occupied by someone of his physical specification, was worth a top-five investment. Condition: NOS.

🏆 The 2021 Rookie Season — 1,026 Receiving Yards — A Rookie Record for Tight Ends — The Beginning of the Career

Kyle Pitts's 2021 rookie season produced 68 catches for 1,026 receiving yards — the most receiving yards ever by a tight end in their first NFL season at the time, a record that required 17 games of the expanded schedule to achieve and that demonstrated that his college statistical profile was transferable to the NFL against professional defensive backs and linebacker coverage. The 1,026 yards made him the first rookie tight end to cross the 1,000-yard receiving threshold in a single season, a mark that the position's history had never produced despite the tight end having been a receiving position in the NFL for over half a century. The 2021 Panini Rookie & Stars #111 Pulsar Prizm PSA 10 GEM MINT is the maximum-grade certified card of the player who produced that season: the Tampa Catholic product, the Florida Gator, the fourth overall pick, the record-breaking rookie. Condition: NOS.

📦 Item Details

Item: Kyle Pitts 2021 Panini Rookie & Stars #111 Pulsar Prizm Rookie RC. Grade: PSA 10 GEM MINT (Professional Sports Authenticator). Player: Kyle Pitts. Hometown: Tampa, Florida (Tampa Catholic High School). College: University of Florida Gators. NFL Draft: 2021, 4th overall, Atlanta Falcons. 2021 rookie season: 68 catches, 1,026 receiving yards (rookie TE record). Condition: NOS.

🏈⭐ Tampa. Florida. Tampa Catholic. The Gators. Gainesville. Dan Mullen. Eight games. 12 touchdowns. The Biletnikoff finalist. A tight end. 6'6''. 245 pounds. A 4.44 forty. Hands that measure 11 inches. The 2021 NFL Draft. The Falcons. Fourth overall. The highest tight end ever selected. Atlanta. The first game. The NFL. 68 catches. 1,026 yards. The record. First rookie tight end over 1,000. Panini. Rookie & Stars. Card 111. Pulsar Prizm. The radial pattern. PSA 10. GEM MINT. Certified. Condition: NOS.