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Rated Rookie

Rated Rookie is the name Panini's Donruss products give the rookie cards in their base set, and Donruss Optic carries Rated Rookie cards of its own.

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Where Rated Rookies sit in a base set A bar drawn to scale, split into the parts of the 2025 Donruss Football base set. The 400-card base set of 2025 Donruss Football: Veterans and legends, 300 cards: Rated Rookies, The 100 rookies. The 400-card base set of 2025 Donruss Football Veterans and legends 300 cards Rated Rookies The 100 rookies

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In 2025 Donruss Football, the 400-card base set holds 300 veterans and legends and 100 rookies, and the rookies make up the Rated Rookie lineup. Checklist Insider and Breakninja, two checklist sites, both list 18 Rated Rookies in a hobby box.

Checklist Insider says 2025 Donruss Optic Football takes many of its designs from Donruss, the Rated Rookie cards among them, with one Rated Rookie per hobby pack. Optic also has a Rated Rookie autograph set with signatures on the card itself.

Breakninja notes that the Rated Rookies come in a long run of colored parallels. Name the product, the year, the card number and any parallel when you buy or list one.

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