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NFL

Peete, Rodney

CARD: Action Packed 1990
ACQUIRED: Trade, 2020

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

  • Finished college career in 1989 as the USC Trojans all-time leading passer completing 630/1081 passes for 8225 yards and 54 TDs.
  • Selected in the 6th round of the 1989 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions.
  • Won the starter job outright in camp, but was injured before the first game.
  • Nevertheless started 8 games that season, winning 3 games, while throwing for 1479 yards and 5 TDs.
  • Early in career, added an extra wrinkle to the Silver Stretch Offense keeping drives alive rushing for 4 TDs in 89, and 6 TDs (363 yards) in 1990.
  • Injuries and constant QB battles punctuated career with the Lions.
  • In 1991, posted career best 6-2 starting record.
  • Played with Lions through 1993, winning only start for Cowboys in 1994.
  • Signed with Philadelphia Eagles in 1995.
  • Thrust into starting lineup for Randall Cunningham, and led team to 9 wins and a playoff berth.
  • Journeyman phase of career arguably began in 1999 after signing for the Washington Redskins for one season.
  • Saw action sparingly, and then joined the Raiders in 2000, also seeing little playing time over two seasons.
  • Signed with Panthers in 2002, experiencing the best season of career, throwing for career highs in attempts (381), completions (223), yards (2630), and TDs (15).
  • Retired after the 2004 season and has done a lot of TV and sports commentary work.

NOTES:

Rodney is not a TTM signer, so when my friend offered to trade me Rodney and Mel Gray for a Jamaal Charles autograph consignment, I jumped at the chance. Hopefully I’ll get another shot at him on a few more set needs in the future.

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NFL

Highsmith, Alonzo (2)

Cards: Pro Set 1990, Action Packed 1990, Fleer 1990, Topps 1990
Acquired: TTM 2021, C/o Home
Sent: 4/27 Received: 5/14 (17 days)

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

  • See Alonzo Highsmith

  • Has continued to establish himself as an up and coming front office executive.

  • Joined the Cleveland Browns front office in 2018 as their Vice President of Player Personnel.

  • As of 2020 works in the Seattle Seahawks front office. 

NOTES:

I think I got really lucky with Alonzo, as he signed all 4 of these cards for me, with two of them becoming more recent set needs. He stopped signing shortly thereafter TTM, but I figured since it’d been nearly 10 years, it was OK to come back and tap that vein again.

NFL

Blades, Brian (2)

Topps 1990 1000 Yard Club, #27

CARDS: Topps 1990 1000 Yard Club, Action Packed 1990, Skybox 1992
ACQUIRED: TTM 2021, C/o Home
SENT: 4/19 RECEIVED: 4/29 (10 Days)

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

Skybox Impact 1992, #92 Action Packed 1990, #251

NOTES:
It had been quite a while since I hit up Brian for a few autographs and I was happy to see he was still at it for the Action Packed and Skybox cards as slowly over the years these have become more set needs. The strange one that has grown on me the most as of late is the Topps 1990 subset 1000 yard club. -It just feels like the odd transition between the 80s and 90s design-wise and I like that.