2024 Panini Donruss Optic Football Hobby Box
Rookies
What are these options?
- Hobby Box
- The full-size box sold through card shops rather than big-box stores. It has the most packs and the best odds, and most modern hobby boxes guarantee at least one autograph or memorabilia card. Pack and card counts vary by product line. Older listings sometimes call this a wax box.
- Mega Box
- A mid-size retail box, bigger than a blaster and smaller than a hobby box. Mega-exclusive parallels are the main draw, and some megas guarantee a hit.
- Blaster Box
- The small retail box sold at stores like Walmart and Target, usually the cheapest full box on the shelf. Autographs are not guaranteed, but many blasters carry exclusive parallels you cannot pull from a hobby box.
- choice
- Panini sells Choice as its own box tier, built around a single pack holding base cards, parallels and a guaranteed hit. The Choice-only parallels are the draw, and they carry the word in their names. Look for Choice Red, Blue, Black Gold and the one of one Choice Nebula, so the card itself tells you which box it came from. Autograph counts vary by product line. On this productOnline-exclusive Choice boxes deliver one autograph and one exclusive Rated Rookie parallel per box, with exclusive Rated Rookie parallels numbered to 24 or less.
- h2
- Panini's compact take on a hobby box, short for Hobby Hybrid. Fewer packs, one guaranteed autograph, and parallels found only in H2 boxes. On this productH2 boxes have eight packs of four cards and average five H2-exclusive Red or Blue Mojo parallels, one base and one Rated Rookie Holo, plus five inserts.
- Cases
- The factory-sealed carton a product ships in, holding a set number of boxes. A full case is the whole carton; an inner case is a smaller sealed block from inside it. Case buyers get untouched pack sequencing and a lower price per box. Some rare cards are seeded about once per case, which is what collectors mean by a case hit.
| Format | In USAUSD | In CanadaCAD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby Box | ![]() |
$1,400 | ||
| Hobby Box choice | ![]() |
$1,325 | ||
| Hobby Box h2 | ![]() |
$425 | ||
| Hobby Box hobby | ![]() |
$1,400 | ||
| Hobby Box international hobby | ![]() |
$425 | ||
| Mega Box | ![]() |
$25 | ||
| Blaster Box | ![]() |
$80 | ||
| Blaster Box (pink parallels!) | ![]() |
$85 | ||
| Blaster Box (purple shock!) | ![]() |
$75 | ||
| Hobby Box Case international hobby 12-box | ![]() |
$5,090 | ||
| Mega Box Case (20) | ![]() |
$2,690, $134 per box | ||
These are the best prices we could find for this product across the 8 retailers we follow for 2024 Panini Donruss Optic, checked daily. Prices move constantly and stock sells out; always confirm on the retailer’s own page before buying.
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2024 Panini Donruss Optic Football
2024 Donruss Optic Football adds a chrome layer to the standard Donruss release, with bold designs and heavy parallel chase. The key rookies are Caleb Williams and Drake Maye, both featured prominently in the Rated Rookie subset with on-card autographs available.
1 Autograph per box on average
- 4 Insert cards (Downtown, Downtown Duos, Mythical, Blazers, My House, Captain in Charge, etc.)
- 3 Holo Parallels
- 9 Additional numbered parallels (serial-numbered tiers)
- 20 Base Rated Rookies
- Rated Rookie Autographs On-card RPS autographs from key first-year players like Caleb Williams and Drake Maye, the marquee chase.
- Downtown / Downtown Duos Headline insert set featuring star players and duos, with International and Super Bowl variants.
- Rookie Patch Autographs Autographed cards with embedded rookie patches, a premium short-print chase.
- Legendary Patch Autographs Autographed cards featuring veteran and Hall of Famer patch hits.
- Holo Parallels Chrome refractor-style parallels that appear 3 per hobby box, the core parallel chase.
- Mythical / Blazers Short-print insert sets to hunt for beyond the main Downtown lineup.
- Released
- April 23, 2025
- Box config
- Hobby: 20 packs per box, 4 cards per pack. H2: 8 packs per box, 4 cards per pack.
- Top rookie
- Caleb Williams
Canadian prices in CAD, American in USD. A break in a price line means every shop was sold out that day; a day we did not scrape carries the last known price forward.


