A couple of years ago I wrote several articles on this site on how to price rookie football cards. Here are the links to review those articles. Now more than ever rookie football cards have become the ultimate investment opportunity in card collecting. Ever since the invention of auto cards, auto patch cards, dna testing and other high end card collecting mechanisms - accurately pricing cards is more difficult.

One cheap way of getting ballpark estimated of card prices is to buy last years price guide from Becketts or some other card sevice.

The Official Beckett Price Guide to Football Cards 2009, Edition #28 (Official Price Guide to Football Cards)

While you will not have the most current pricing or this years rookies the price guide will give a good idea of how much the card is worth based on last years experts estimates. Most cards do not change much year to year unless it is something like a Hall of Fame announcement or a blowup year from a player like Chris Johnson.

Ultimately as I stated in my previous posts the card is only worth what the market will pay for it. Your key is to find cards before the player has the breakout year and sell immediately after the breakout year. For example, this year the Javid Best Rookie Card seems like a perfect candidate for one of those blowup type of years.

Good luck and if you have any questions please leave a comment