2024 Score Football: The First 2024 Release Brings More Excitement Than Value

Score Football is back, releasing on September 11, 2024, at $250/box. As always, this product comes heralding the start of the NFL season as the first officially licensed product for 2024.

This release is one of the top of the month and is packed with new rookies, inserts, parallels, and autographs, making it an absolute must-have for collectors and investors alike.

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2024 Score Football break

CardLines is running a break of 2024 Score on September 12th. Tune in here!

2024 Score Football introduction

The 2024 Score release brings a lot to the table, even if “potential” isn’t at the forefront of that list. The set features a fresh crop of rookies, allowing collectors to chase after the highly sought-after rookie cards from the 2024 NFL Draft.

Among the standout rookies are talents like Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels, Michael Penix Jr., Bo Nix and numerous others, making this release particularly enticing.  

That said, at the time of writing, note that Fanatics had signed exclusive autograph deals with Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, Xavier Worthy and Rome Odunze, meaning they presumably won’t have autographs in this set (unless it was created before they signed). 

Score is known for being simple. It’s the season’s first officially licensed NFL product but will feature the rookies in their college uniforms. That said, a few of the autographs could feature some of the top rookies in NFL threads. That remains to be seen. 

Score is to football what Hoops is to basketball, and the parallel sets are largely the same, too. If Optic is Target and Donruss is Walmart, you can think of Score as… Goodwill? An exciting hunt that, very rarely, yields a nice find. 

It’s not a sexy, high-end product, but it doesn’t pretend to be. It does something else…

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It’s fun.

What to expect from 2024 Score

Score’s hobby product is all about having a big rip session with bright cards, cool parallels and some rookie autograph potential. 

Each box comes with 10 packs of 40 cards, so you’re getting 400 cards per box. Each box will contain 4 autographs, 90 rookies, 10 parallels and 36 inserts.  (Suggested Score tagline: Killing trees for the RCs).

With a very deep checklist of 100 rookies, Score usually has every single rookie you could ever hope to pull. Occasionally, when an unexpected star breaks out, this can create value in its own way.

There are also base die-cuts, which fall 2 per case.

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2024 Score football parallels

Here’s a parallel breakdown:

• Base
• Base Scorecard
• Base Showcase #’d/100
• Base Gold Zone #’d/50
• Base Artist’s Proof #’d/35
• Base Red Zone #’d/20
• Base First Down #’d/10
• Base End Zone #’d/6
• Base Gem Masters #’d One-of-One
• Base Die-Cut #’d/10

What to expect from Score Cards for 2024

I can’t help but think of Score as a family product, one that’s cooked up as a great way of introducing young collectors to the game. Those collectors can embark on a hunt for a pretty exciting lineup of cards.

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Exclusive Inserts

Exclusive inserts are available only in the Hobby edition of 2024 Score. The chase includes inserts like Breakthrough, Hot Rookies, NFL Draft, and the all-new Men of Autumn and The Franchise. None of these will demand a big resell value, but they do at least look really cool.

Short-Printed Lenticular Inserts

This year saw the introduction of short-printed Lenticular inserts featuring Next Up, Intergalactic, and the brand-new Showtime. These inserts are sure to be rare and highly coveted by collectors, making them prized additions to any collection.

Hobby-Exclusive Dual-Auto Insert

One of the standout features of the 2024 Score release is the Hobby-exclusive dual-auto insert, Double Trouble. This special insert showcases thrilling pairings of some of the NFL’s most dynamic players, making it a must-have for passionate collectors.

Value of 2024 Score

Let’s look at investing in Score as a potential investment, both sealed and singles. 

Investing in wax

Let’s assume the pre-order price doesn’t budge and we have a release price of $250 for this sealed product as we try to value it as a potential investment. 

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With that in mind, here’s the value of sealed Score boxes for the last few years (as of 8/22/24):

• 2017: $1200
• 2018: $350
• 2019: $150
• 2020: $320
• 2021: $130
• 2022: $220
• 2023: $250

So, the elephant in the room: 2017 sold for a ton thanks to Patrick Mahomes. That’s a 5x return on a $250 box. But there was only one box sold in the last month upon the time of writing, and 2017 is an outlier, either way.

When I outline the values for football products, 2019 and 2022 are always the lowest on the list because of the rookie classes.

So, at $250, it will take a phenomenal class to create any sort of valuable ROI for this product, and this product presumably won’t have autos of the top two quarterbacks. I’d stay away from Score as a long-term investment.

Investing in Score Football singles

This is a section I always include, but with Score, I’ll keep it really short: there are not many singles I’d invest in long-term. Or… any, really. 

If there’s an exception, its if you want an affordable rookie autograph of a big-ticket player and you’re working with a smaller budget, this might be your best option. Apart from that, though, you’d be better off waiting for other sets – even Donruss. 

No matter how great the player is, the ceiling is only going to be so high with Score. Save your individual player investments for a brand that has more potential. 

Bottom line: Should you rip, hold or pass on 2024 Score Football?

2024 Score Football is not a high-end product and it doesn’t pretend to be, but that’s part of its charm and what keeps it coming back year after year.

Still, Score is perfect for the thing this hobby is truly about: ripping packs. Buy a $250 box, grab your family and friends, and go for it! What will you pull? With the release price, you can’t lose too much money on one hobby box. 

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2024 Score Football checklist

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2023 Score Checklist