Two players dominate today's post, and that's cool since I often pair them up mentally the way I do with David Terrell and Anthony Thomas. The first is WR Jehu Chesson (click his name to go to my TCDB gallery for him, plus the other players in today's post). Considering his playing time in the NFL has been minimal it's been easy finding nice stuff of his at low prices, such as the four autographs you see above. Jehu's got an interesting signature, with his name somewhat reasonable to make out, and he includes the "II" in his name, which is pretty cool.
In terms of what you see above, Leaf Metal Draft includes a Michigan uniform-ish picture (hey, what are you gonna do?) and Panini's Unparalleled is a super shiny design, plus it's #39/49. The middle two are from Panini's Preferred (using the Crown Royale design) and Prizm.
Numbers-wise, Chesson's hit count nearly doubles from three to seven after these additions, and I'd surely be happy to land more when I can.
Chesson always brings to mind position pal Amara Darboh, and vice versa, so naturally I have a bunch of his cards to show off today as well. As a matter of fact, this scan of four vertical designs is just the tip of the iceberg!
The relic in this group is a nice Mirror Orange jersey card from 2017 Certified and is numbered 122/399. To its right is a jersey/auto/RC (#095/299) from 2017 Limited, and that interesting swatch has the slightest hint of green stitching, so it looks like it probably came from the jersey numbers on his chest. Then there's autographs from Origins' Rookie Signatures and Playoff's Rookie Autographs (#107/199), also 2017 Panini products. Like Chesson he has a pretty decent signature.
Yep, five more cards of the nomadic WR, all horizontal this time. Relics from Panini Contenders Rookie Ticket Swatches, Origins Rookie Jumbo Jerseys (#026/199), and Vertex Startup Jerseys (#89/99) comprise a nice jersey trio, with the latter two being my favorites, especially the Vertex card and its enormous swatch.
Those are joined by the base (#04/99) and Orange (#15/25) versions of Amara's 2017 Panini XR Luminous Endorsements autos. The super cool design here is kind of a thinner shadowbox idea, with the image framed by the border underneath a clear acetate cover that the player signs. That makes it great to look at, plus it gives players a very large surface to cover with their signatures. Too cool!
Darboh has been one of my more productive recent collections and this big haul jumps him all the way up to 29 hits (and 39 cards total), a number I'll look to increase soon.
This last football scan includes three miscellaneous players. Funchess is well known around these parts, and here the former TE/WR stars on a 2015 Panini Contenders Rookie Ticket Swatches jersey. As usual I find the Contenders design simple and appealing. That's hit #11 and card #54 of the injured Colt.
Next is one of two new players debuting in the Michigan Football hits collection today. Mike McCray was a two-year starter at LB in Ann Arbor who put up fairly similar numbers in 2016 and '17, though that's where his career ultimately ended as he retired last year. That makes me grateful for a product like Contenders--in this case 2018 Draft Picks--that allows me to chase an autograph of a guy that wouldn't otherwise have one, even if that autograph is a bit on the "???" side.
Last up is QB Jake Rudock, the Iowa transfer that came to Ann Arbor in 2015 and led Jim Harbaugh's first team to a 10-3 record, including a thumping of Florida in the Citrus Bowl. Harbaugh was able to elevate his play enough to get Rudock drafted by the Lions in the sixth round the following year, which I guess isn't exactly an ideal fate. Fortunately he's escaped that vortex of suck, only to be encompassed by a worse one down in Miami! Anyway, my first hit of his is this beautiful (if poorly scanned) 2016 Panini Black Gold Golden Prospects Signatures White Gold auto (#92/99). Like the Darbohs above this one has a bit of a shadowbox effect, though the image of the player you see is on the top layer, and the autograph was on a sticker placed on the other acetate piece.
I'm happy to welcome McCray and Rudock as the 220th and 221st players in the football collection, and even happier that they contributed to today's big milestone: 1400 football hits and counting! 1402 to be exact, with more to be posted soon. Right now I doubt I'll hit 1500 before the end of the year, but you never know.
With hockey season (both college and pro) starting up soon, today seemed as good of a day as any to post my lone pickup in that sport:
I love it when I can get 1/1s for cheap prices, and this plate of Steve Shields from 2017-18 Leaf Masked Men certainly qualifies: I grabbed it for just $4.85 way back in April. As you can see, it's the cyan plate from the goalie-centric product's Jumbo Goalie Patch insert, and I'd sure love to add one of those actual cards to my Shields collection as well! For now this plate goes with the seven autographs I have of the former Michigan netminder, and it becomes 1/1 #122. I don't have any more such cards from COMC to show off, but an upcoming eBay post may just blow your mind.
Here's hoping I'm in the mood for posting next weekend after another one, this time against Iowa. In the meantime stay tuned for a few more COMC posts, plus another Sportlots run.
Nice grabs! I need to remember all of these names you collect lol. Think I have a nice Darboh somewhere.
ReplyDeleteOr you could just write them down :)
DeleteLOL, and there's also Wikipedia!
DeleteOh man... seeing that Steve Shields printing plate sure brings back memories. Back in the late 90's when he came to the Sharks, I stocked up on his 1997/98 Pinnacle Inside rookie card. Pretty sure I bought a 500ct. lot or something insane like that. I didn't say it was a good memory ;)
ReplyDeleteLOL whoa! I don't remember him being a huge prospect but I think I may have seen him play at least one game for Michigan as a kid.
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