2021-22 Panini Rookies and Stars Football Checklist

2021-22 Panini Rookies and Stars Football features a 200-card base set with 100 rookie cards included. The product highlights the loaded 2021 NFL Draft class, featuring key rookies Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, and DeVonta Smith. The release includes 15 distinct insert and parallel sets, following Panini's standard parallel structure with Silver parallels leading to increasingly scarce numbered versions down to 1/1 editions.

What to chase: Priority targets include rookie cards of the top five quarterbacks and wide receiver DeVonta Smith, particularly in numbered parallel versions. The various Airborne parallels offer multiple color variations at different rarity levels, while the Airborne Signatures and Base Signatures Platinum provide autograph opportunities from the rookie class. Collectors should focus on low-numbered parallels of franchise quarterbacks Lawrence and Fields, along with any 1/1 variations of the premium rookies.