Bucky Irving Card Appraisal

2024 Panini Score Football Bucky Irving Pumpkin Parallel Rookie Card

This is a 2024 Panini Score Football trading card featuring rookie running back Bucky Irving of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The card measures standard trading card size (2.5 by 3.5 inches) and is constructed from premium cardstock with a gloss finish. A defining physical characteristic is the 'Pumpkin' or 'Halloween' parallel border, which features an orange background repetitive pattern of jack-o'-lanterns. The card's design includes the athlete's name and position ('BUCKY IRVING - RB') in a purple and white banner at the top, the 'SCORE' logo in the upper right, and white spiderweb motifs in the upper corners. The central action shot depicts Irving in his Buccaneers uniform carrying a football. At the bottom left, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers team logo/helmet is visible. The condition appears to be near-mint to mint, with sharp corners and clean edges visible in the photograph. This specific parallel belongs to the modern era of sports card collecting, where manufacturers create short-print themed variations of base cards to increase rarity and collectibility. The craftsmanship is typical of high-volume commercial printing by Panini America.