Patrick Mahomes took the top spot in a reported week of major football-card transactions, led by a 2018 Panini Flawless Shield Auto numbered 1/1 that sold for $200,000 on eBay on October 5, 2026. Graded BGS 9.5, the card stands well apart from the rest of the five reported sales—not simply as the week’s highest result, but as an example of how several premium-card ingredients can converge in one piece.

The remaining four sales ranged from $28,000 to $50,000. They included a second Mahomes one-of-one, a signed Mahomes rookie card, a 2000 Playoff Contenders Tom Brady Rookie Ticket autograph and a 1998 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems Randy Moss card. For collectors, the list is a compact lesson in the categories that command attention at the top end of modern football cards: player appeal, autograph status, serial-number scarcity, distinctive memorabilia elements and third-party condition assessment.

There is an immediate caveat worth keeping in view. These are individual reported sales across several venues, recorded at a particular time. A five-card snapshot is useful for seeing which specific cards changed hands and at what amounts; it is not, by itself, a full price guide for every card carrying the same player name, set or grade. Small differences in serial numbering, autograph grade, card grade and card-specific designations can matter enormously.

For a direct rundown of the reported transactions, readers can also review the sale details for this week’s football-card leaderboard.

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1. 2018 Panini Flawless Shield Auto /1 Patrick Mahomes II, BGS 9.5 — $200,000

The week’s defining sale was the Mahomes 2018 Panini Flawless Shield Auto /1, which sold through eBay for $200,000. The card places Mahomes against a white background, with an NFL shield element positioned to the left and a blue-ink signature below the player. It received a 9.5 grade from Beckett Grading Services, generally abbreviated as BGS.

Why the description matters: “/1” indicates this is the sole numbered copy of that particular version. In card collecting, a one-of-one is not automatically interchangeable with every other one-of-one of the same athlete. The particular set, the card’s construction, its featured memorabilia component, the autograph and the assigned grade all distinguish it. Here, the Shield Auto name signals that the NFL shield is central to the card’s identity, rather than the card being merely another numbered Mahomes autograph.

The $200,000 result was nearly four times the price of the No. 2 card in this group. That gap illustrates how an especially scarce, heavily featured Mahomes card can occupy a different tier from other high-end examples, even those connected to another all-time headline name.

2. 2000 Playoff Contenders Rookie Ticket Auto Tom Brady, PSA 7 / Auto 9 — $50,000

Tom Brady’s 2000 Playoff Contenders Rookie Ticket Auto sold for $50,000 on eBay on October 9. The card was assessed as PSA 7, with its autograph graded 9.

This result is a helpful reminder that the two numbers sometimes listed on an autographed slab describe different things. The card grade concerns the physical card, while the autograph grade evaluates the signature. A PSA 7 / Auto 9 label therefore should not be compressed into a simplistic single grade; it communicates separate judgments about the underlying collectible and the ink on it.

“Rookie Ticket” also has clear practical importance in the listing. It identifies a rookie-era Brady autograph from the 2000 Playoff Contenders release, rather than a later signed Brady card. That combination of rookie designation and autograph status helped place the card second for the week. The reported result also continues a recent run in which versions of this Brady Rookie Ticket autograph have repeatedly appeared among notable weekly sales.

At $50,000, Brady’s card was the top non-Mahomes item in the group. Its placement shows that a graded rookie autograph can remain a major category even when a one-of-one Mahomes card dominates the overall board.

3. 2022 Panini Prizm Black Shimmer Prizm 1/1 Patrick Mahomes II, PSA 8 — $45,140

Another Mahomes one-of-one followed closely behind Brady’s signed rookie. A 2022 Panini Prizm Black Shimmer Prizm 1/1, graded PSA 8, sold for $45,140 through Goldin Auction on October 8.

The Black Shimmer Prizm treatment is visually fundamental to this specific card: its black framing and foil-like finish give it a sharply different presentation from a conventional base card. “Prizm” in this context identifies a parallel treatment, meaning a variation within a broader product family. The “Black Shimmer” wording further narrows it to this color-and-surface version, while “1/1” establishes the serial-numbered scarcity of this particular parallel.

That distinction is useful for anyone reading high-end sales lists. “Mahomes 2022 Prizm” would be far too broad a label to infer a value from this transaction. The black shimmer treatment, one-of-one numbering and PSA 8 grade are not optional footnotes; together, they define the collectible that sold.

It is also notable that the card reached $45,140 despite having a PSA 8 rather than a top numerical grade. The sale does not establish a universal rule about grades or prove that condition is unimportant. It does, however, show that extreme serial scarcity and a visually distinct premium parallel remained key features in this individual result.

4. 2017 Panini Contenders Ticket Auto Patrick Mahomes II, BGS 9.5 / Auto 10 — $41,209.20

The fourth-place transaction was a 2017 Panini Contenders Ticket Auto of Mahomes, selling for $41,209.20 through ALT auction on October 8. The card carries a BGS 9.5 grade and an autograph grade of 10.

This sale gives the list its clearest contrast between two types of Mahomes rarity. The No. 1 Flawless Shield Auto and No. 3 Black Shimmer Prizm were explicitly numbered one-of-ones. The 2017 Contenders Ticket Auto is identified here instead through its rookie-card year, autograph and strong dual grading. Each has a different path to collector interest.

A dual grade is particularly useful information on a signed card. BGS 9.5 represents the condition assessment of the card, while Auto 10 is the highest autograph score stated on the label. Collectors comparing this sale with the Brady result should avoid treating PSA and BGS labels as one-to-one equivalents: the grading companies and their scales are distinct, and the cards themselves are different issues with different collecting contexts. What can be said from the listing is narrower and solid: this Mahomes rookie autograph had a 9.5 card grade and a perfect 10 autograph grade, and it changed hands for just over $41,000.

5. 1998 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems /50 Randy Moss, PSA 8 — $28,000

Randy Moss provided the lone non-quarterback entry. His 1998 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems card, numbered to 50 and graded PSA 8, sold for $28,000 on eBay on October 4.

The Moss result broadens a list otherwise dominated by Mahomes and Brady, and it does so with a card from the late 1990s rather than a contemporary release. Moss was a wide receiver, a positional difference that matters because weekly high-dollar football-card lists can often lean heavily toward quarterbacks and running backs. His appearance here demonstrates the room elite wide receivers can claim when the card itself carries a highly regarded scarce parallel designation.

“/50” means the card was issued with a stated print run of 50 copies for this version. That is fundamentally different from the one-of-one cards above it: it denotes limited production, not singular production. The PSA 8 grade adds another defining point. As with any graded sale, the figure attached to a PSA 8 Moss card should not be applied automatically to every 1998 Metal Universe Moss card, including raw copies or copies with different grades.

What this five-sale snapshot says—and what it does not

The full list totaled $364,349.20 across its five reported transactions. Mahomes accounted for three of the cards and $286,349.20 of that sum, with the $200,000 Shield Auto driving most of the separation. Brady’s Rookie Ticket autograph reached $50,000, while Moss’s Precious Metal Gems /50 closed the ranking at $28,000.

There are several practical takeaways for collectors following these results:

  • Read the entire card description. A player, year and brand alone are rarely enough. Numbering, parallel name, autograph status, memorabilia element and grader all help define the exact item.
  • Keep card and autograph grades separate. The Mahomes Contenders listing and Brady Rookie Ticket listing each show why a label can carry more than one quality signal.
  • Do not flatten all scarcity into one category. A card numbered /50 and one marked 1/1 are both limited, but they describe very different supply situations.
  • Use individual sales as references, not shortcuts. These transactions are valuable comparables only when a card being evaluated is meaningfully similar in issue, version, grade and signature status.
  • Player position does not erase premium demand. The Moss sale illustrates that a high-end wide receiver card can join a quarterback-led list when the underlying issue is sufficiently scarce and recognizable.

The week ultimately belonged to Mahomes, whose Shield Auto was the clear headline transaction and whose cards occupied three of the five slots. But the more enduring collector lesson is specificity. The difference between a $200,000 Shield Auto, a $45,140 Black Shimmer 1/1 and a $41,209.20 graded rookie autograph is not merely the player pictured. It is the precise combination of product, scarcity, signature, design and assessed condition attached to each card.