You would think the designers at Panini America were fans of Blondie.
Still, there are some veterans and rookie cards, along with inserts, parallels and autographs, to keep collectors in rapture.
The base set contains 200 cards, which are split between 100 veteran cards and 100 first-year players. I pulled 19 veterans and one rookie card (Jalen Wydermyer).
There was one parallel card — an Aspirations Shimmer card of Eagles rookie defensive tackle Jordan Davis, numbered to 499.
The player photographs are action shots with foil in the background. The player’s name is stamped in gold foil in the bottom right-hand corner of the card, with the player’s last name getting the large block treatment.
The card backs utilize a team’s primary colors for the main color scheme.
The design is simple, and each player has an eight-line biography that features statistics, highlights and quotes.
I pulled four different insert cards.
Spellbound boasts a card front with a giant letter that is part of the player’s last name. Therefore, since I pulled a Joe Burrow card with an “R,” I can expect there to be five other cards with different letters so I can spell out the name of the Bengals quarterback.
Full Throttle gives praise to speedy players. The layout shows an action shot of the player framed against a rainbow-like setting that plays off his team’s primary colors. Very nice. The card I pulled was 49ers receiver Brandon Aiyuk.
Aiyuk, by the way, did not need a lot of speed on one signature play, as newly acquired running back Christian McCaffrey threw him a pass that resulted in a 34-yard touchdown reception. That tied the game at 7 in second quarter as a wide-open Aiyuk cruised into the end zone.
Electrifying.
It's tricky!@CMC_22 TD pass to @THE2ERA □
— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) October 30, 2022
□ #SFvsLAR on FOX pic.twitter.com/9CcXXH3XU7
The 2022 Donruss set has some flash and foil, and some of that foil looks pretty nice. The photography is shot and the design, while full of parallel lines, is clean and sharp.