🏈 Ladd McConkey 2024 Panini Score #328 Rookie RC PSA 10 GEM MINT — Los Angeles Chargers Wide Receiver — Blue Ridge, Georgia — University of Georgia Bulldogs National Champion — 34th Overall Pick 2024 NFL Draft — 2024 Season 1,149 Receiving Yards — PSA 10 GEM MINT Certified — The 2024 Panini Score Rookie Card

🏈 A PSA 10 GEM MINT certified Ladd McConkey 2024 Panini Score #328 rookie card — from the Panini Score 2024 football product, the accessible entry-level Panini release that produces rookie cards for the full complement of NFL Draft selections in a clean, design-forward photography-focused format. Ladd McConkey, the Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver selected 34th overall in the 2024 NFL Draft, graduated from the University of Georgia with two National Championship rings and entered the NFL as a polished route runner who had spent his college career catching passes from Stetson Bennett and developing the precise footwork, separation quickness, and yards-after-catch ability that made his 2024 rookie season one of the most productive receiver debuts in recent NFL history. PSA 10 GEM MINT: the maximum grade. Condition: NOS.

🌟 Blue Ridge, Georgia — Fannin County — The Mountains of North Georgia — Where the College Football Pipeline Reaches Into the Appalachian Foothills

Ladd McConkey was born March 1, 2002, in Blue Ridge, Georgia — a small mountain city in Fannin County in the far northwestern corner of Georgia where the Blue Ridge Mountain range crosses the state line, where the Toccoa River runs cold and clear through a community that has maintained its rural identity despite the outdoor recreation economy that draws visitors from Atlanta. Fannin County is not a traditional football factory in the way that the Atlanta suburbs or the smaller cities of South Georgia have been — it is mountain Georgia, where the populations are smaller and the football programs work with what the county gives them. Ladd McConkey developed in that environment into a receiver good enough to earn a University of Georgia scholarship — a program that operates at the highest recruiting level of the sport and that does not extend offers lightly to players from any background. The mountain Georgia receiver made it to Athens, and then to the NFL. Condition: NOS.

⭐ University of Georgia Bulldogs — Two National Championships — Stetson Bennett — Athens, Georgia — The Development of a Polished NFL Route Runner

The University of Georgia Bulldogs under head coach Kirby Smart won back-to-back College Football Playoff National Championships in January 2022 and January 2023 — the first consecutive titles by a college football program since Alabama in 2011 and 2012. Ladd McConkey was part of both championship rosters as a wide receiver catching passes from Stetson Bennett in a Georgia offense designed to run the ball with elite running backs and use the passing game selectively to exploit what defenses gave them. The discipline of that offensive system — reading defensive coverage pre-snap, running exact routes to leverage defensive alignment, catching the ball in traffic at the point of the route rather than waiting for it — produced in McConkey the technical receiver skills that NFL scouts identified as NFL-ready before the 2024 draft process began. He left Athens with two National Championship rings and a college resume that showed up in the precise technique of his professional route running from the first week of his NFL career. Condition: NOS.

🏆 Los Angeles Chargers — 34th Overall Pick — Justin Herbert — The 2024 Rookie Season — 1,149 Receiving Yards

The Los Angeles Chargers selected Ladd McConkey with the 34th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft — the second pick of the second round, immediately after the first round ended, and the first wide receiver the Chargers had invested a premium pick on in the new Jim Harbaugh coaching era. McConkey joined a Chargers offense built around quarterback Justin Herbert, whose arm talent and accuracy were the organizational foundation of everything Los Angeles was building offensively. In his 2024 rookie season Ladd McConkey caught 82 passes for 1,149 receiving yards and 6 touchdowns — numbers that placed him among the most productive rookie receivers in a single season in recent NFL history and that validated the Blue Ridge, Georgia product in every metric the sport uses to evaluate a receiver. The 2024 Panini Score #328 RC PSA 10 GEM MINT is the maximum-grade certified card of the Georgia mountain product, the Bulldog national champion, in his first official NFL document. Condition: NOS.

📦 Item Details

Item: Ladd McConkey 2024 Panini Score Rookie RC #328. Grade: PSA 10 GEM MINT (Professional Sports Authenticator). Player: Ladd McConkey. Born: March 1, 2002, Blue Ridge, Georgia. College: University of Georgia Bulldogs (2x National Champion 2022, 2023). NFL Draft: 2024, 34th overall (2nd round), Los Angeles Chargers. 2024 rookie season: 82 catches, 1,149 yards, 6 TDs. Condition: NOS.

🏈⭐ Blue Ridge. Georgia. Fannin County. The Appalachian foothills. The mountains. The Toccoa River. The small town. The scholarship to Athens. The University of Georgia. Kirby Smart. The Bulldogs. Two National Championships. 2022. 2023. The back-to-back. Stetson Bennett. The rings. Two of them. The 2024 NFL Draft. Los Angeles. The Chargers. Jim Harbaugh. Pick 34. Justin Herbert. The arm talent. The receiver and the quarterback. The 2024 season. 82 catches. 1,149 yards. 6 touchdowns. The rookie record. Panini Score. Card 328. PSA 10. GEM MINT. The maximum grade. Blue Ridge to Los Angeles. The mountain Georgia receiver in the NFL. Condition: NOS.