{"product_id":"graded-2023-upper-deck-goodwin-champions-cj-stroud-83-rookie-rc-football-card-psa-10-gem-mint","title":"Graded 2023 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions CJ Stroud #83 Rookie RC Football Card PSA 10 Gem Mint","description":"\u003cp\u003e🏈 \u003cstrong\u003eGraded 2023 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions CJ Stroud #83 Rookie RC Football Card — PSA 10 GEM MINT — The Perfectly Graded Goodwin Champions Rookie Card of the Houston Texans Quarterback Who Won the 2023 AP Offensive Rookie of the Year Award, the Rancho Cucamonga California Native and Ohio State Buckeye Who Transformed the Texans' Offense in His First Professional Season and Led the Franchise Back to the Playoffs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Upper Deck's Goodwin Champions is one of the most visually distinctive products in the multi-sport card market — an annual release whose aesthetic deliberately references the visual language of nineteenth-century cabinet card photography, vintage tobacco card art, and the illustrated history of athletic achievement across centuries of sport. The product includes athletes from multiple disciplines — professional football players alongside baseball stars, Olympic champions, and historical subjects — presented in a format that treats athletic excellence as a subject worthy of the same curatorial care that museum collections bring to objects of historical significance. Card #83 places CJ Stroud in the 2023 Goodwin Champions checklist as a Rookie RC in the first year of what became one of the most celebrated debut seasons in recent NFL history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 Stroud was born on October 3, 2001, in Rancho Cucamonga, California — in the Inland Empire, the vast inland valley east of Los Angeles that has emerged as one of California's most productive athletic development environments across the past two decades, producing significant numbers of Division I football recruits and professional athletes from its high school circuits. He played college football at Ohio State under head coach Ryan Day — the Buckeyes of the Big Ten, one of college football's most productive pipelines to the NFL — where his three seasons as a starter produced multiple Heisman Trophy finalist appearances and the kind of statistical production that made him the consensus second-overall pick when he declared for the 2023 NFL Draft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 The Houston Texans selected Stroud second overall in 2023, pairing him with first-year head coach DeMeco Ryans in an organizational rebuild that exceeded every expectation in its inaugural season. Stroud's 2023 performance — a combination of accuracy, poise, decision-making speed, and the ability to process complex defenses quickly — produced the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year award and a playoff run that included the Texans winning their first playoff game in several seasons. The partnership between Stroud's quarterbackin, Ryans' defensive scheme, and the receiving talent surrounding them gave Houston a franchise identity that the organization had not possessed since the peak Andre Johnson years, and Stroud's composure as a 22-year-old leading a playoff team made him one of the most watched young players in professional football. Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) awarded this card PSA 10 GEM MINT. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 CJ Stroud. Rancho Cucamonga, California. Ohio State Buckeyes. Houston Texans. 2023 NFL Draft 2nd Overall. 2023 AP Offensive Rookie of the Year. AFC South Champion. 2023 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions #83 Rookie RC. PSA 10 GEM MINT. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039524401384,"sku":"2023-UDGC-CJS-83-PSA-10","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/graded-2023-upper-deck-goodwin-champions-cj-stroud-83-rookie-rc-football-card-psa-10-gem-568.webp?v=1770207478","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/graded-2023-upper-deck-goodwin-champions-cj-stroud-83-rookie-rc-football-card-psa-10-gem-mint","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}