The not-so-distant future of Panini America football cards keeps growing brighter and brighter. With every passing day, the top rookies from the 2011 NFL Draft Class continue filling our mailbox with the most welcomed holiday packages imaginable: Autographed Rookie Cards — and accompanying parallels and inserts — for late-season releases such as 2011 Plates & Patches, 2011 Limited and 2011 Playoff Contenders.
In the last two days alone we’ve received bona fide collecting cornerstones from promising first-year passers such as Cam Newton, Jake Locker and Blaine Gabbert. Here, take a look . . .