2017 Panini Prizm Patrick Mahomes #269 RC

A chrome card for a rookie who barely played

Panini released 2017 Prizm Football on October 25, 2017. The product followed a formula the brand had used for years: a base set of veterans and rookies printed on reflective chromium stock, a long ladder of colored parallels, and rookie autographs. Hobby boxes carried 12 packs of 12 cards and promised three autographs and nine numbered Prizm parallels, each numbered to 275 or fewer.

The base set runs 300 cards, and the rookies sit at the back. Patrick Mahomes II of the Kansas City Chiefs is card #269. The front shows him scrambling with the ball cocked to throw, with the Prizm branding across the top and his name and team at the bottom.

In 2017 Panini made only one standard finish of each card, the Silver Prizm, which was as common as a base card. Starting in 2018, Panini printed both a plain base card and a separate Silver Prizm for each player, which made later Silvers scarcer. That is why collectors and sales trackers treat the 2017 Silver #269 as Mahomes' base Prizm rookie card.

The quarterback from Tyler, Texas

Patrick Lavon Mahomes II was born September 17, 1995, in Tyler, Texas. His father, Pat Mahomes, pitched in the major leagues for parts of 11 seasons. The son played football, baseball and basketball in high school and chose Texas Tech, close to home, where he played both football and baseball at first.

He backed up Davis Webb as a freshman and became the starter as a sophomore, throwing for 4,653 yards and 36 touchdowns. Before his junior season he quit baseball. On October 22, 2016, against Oklahoma, he set the FBS record for total offense in a game with 819 yards, including 734 passing yards, which tied an NCAA mark. He led the nation that season with 5,052 passing yards and won the Sammy Baugh Trophy as the country's top college passer.

At the 2017 draft, held April 27-29 on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Chiefs traded their first-round pick (27th overall), a third-round pick and their 2018 first-round pick to Buffalo to move up to 10th and take him. Two other quarterbacks went in the top 12: Mitchell Trubisky second to Chicago and Deshaun Watson 12th to Houston.

A rookie year spent watching

Mahomes spent almost all of 2017 behind starter Alex Smith. His only regular-season appearance was the final week, December 31, 2017, at Denver, when Kansas City rested Smith before the playoffs. Mahomes completed 22 of 35 passes for 284 yards with no touchdowns and one interception, and the Chiefs won 27-24.

On January 30, 2018, the Chiefs traded Smith to Washington and handed Mahomes the job. He threw four touchdown passes in the 2018 opener and six the next week, an NFL record of 10 through two games. He finished with 5,097 passing yards and 50 touchdowns, became the only quarterback with 5,000-yard seasons in both college and the NFL, and became the first Chiefs player named league MVP.

The card's collectors rode that wave. One collector who had bought a PSA 10 copy in October 2018 for $90 told an interviewer in October 2019 that the card was by then selling for about $1,500. "If you're looking for the most popular mainstream rookie card of his, that's going to be the Prizm card," he said.

From $90 to five figures and back

Mahomes won Super Bowl LIV over San Francisco on February 2, 2020, and was named its MVP. That July he signed a 10-year extension worth $477 million plus $26 million in bonuses, described at the time as the largest contract in professional sports history. He added Super Bowl wins over Philadelphia on February 12, 2023, and San Francisco in overtime on February 11, 2024, earning MVP honors in both, and a second league MVP for the 2022 season.

The card's sales record follows a different curve. In the 2021 card boom, PSA 10 copies sold online for $10,900 in March and $9,901 in June. By October 2022 one sold for $3,380. Sales in late 2025 ran $4,451 to $5,100, and through the summer of 2026 most PSA 10 sales landed between about $6,450 and $8,000. The latest recorded sale before this page was written, on September 28, 2026, was $8,100.

On December 14, 2025, Mahomes tore his ACL and needed ACL and LCL surgery. He was back under center to start the 2026 season and won his first three starts.

The rarer versions of the same card live in another price bracket. In January 2025, a one-of-one Black Finite Rookie Autograph from the same set, graded BGS 9.5, was listed for sale online at $2 million; the report did not record a sale.

How to tell what you have

The 2017 Prizm #269 is a chromium card with the Prizm logo at the top. The Silver is unnumbered. Colored parallels carry a different finish and most are serial numbered on the back: Orange #/275, Light Blue #/199, Blue Wave #/149, Green Scope #/99, Purple Crystals #/75, Red Power #/49, Camo #/25, Gold #/10, Gold Vinyl #/5 and Black Finite 1/1. Unnumbered retail parallels include Blue, Red, Green, Pink, Disco and Red/White/Blue, and the Bronze Stars and White Sparkle versions came from special distribution channels.

A collector who has graded many copies described a surface print defect just to the left of Mahomes' shoulder on a large number of base Prizm cards, which he believed did not appear on the parallels. He guessed close to half the cards carry it, some more visibly than others. Any line or dot in that spot is worth checking before buying a raw copy.

Grade matters enormously. In 2026, PSA 9 copies sold for roughly $1,000 to $1,900 while PSA 10 copies brought several times that. As of October 1, 2026, a sales tracker counted 985 PSA 10 examples of the Silver.

Why the card matters

Mahomes' numbers through the first three games of 2026 stand at 36,751 passing yards and 274 touchdowns in 129 regular-season games, with a 98-31 record as a starter, two AP MVP awards, six Pro Bowls and two first-team All-Pro selections.

His rookie autographs and low-numbered parallels set the headlines, but the unnumbered Silver Prizm is the card most collectors can actually buy. That is what makes #269 in PSA 10 a useful barometer: it is common enough to trade every week, and its price moves with the player.

The numbers

2017 season (rookie card year)

1 G, 1 GS, 1-0 record, 22 of 35, 284 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT, 76.4 rating; 7 rushes, 10 yds.

2018 season

16 G, 12-4, 383 of 580, 5,097 yds, 50 TD, 12 INT, 113.8 rating; 60 rushes, 272 yds, 2 TD. AP MVP, Offensive Player of the Year, first-team All-Pro.

2019 season

14 G, 11-3, 4,031 yds, 26 TD, 5 INT, 105.3 rating. Super Bowl LIV MVP.

2022 season

17 G, 14-3, 5,250 yds, 41 TD, 12 INT, 105.2 rating. AP MVP, first-team All-Pro.

Career (2017 through Week 3 of 2026)

129 G, 98-31, 3,160 of 4,771, 36,751 yds, 274 TD, 87 INT, 100.9 rating.

Honors

2x AP MVP, 3x Super Bowl MVP, 3x Super Bowl champion, 6x Pro Bowl, 2x first-team All-Pro.

Draft

2017, first round, 10th overall, Kansas City Chiefs

Timeline

1. Sep 17, 1995

   Patrick Mahomes II is born in Tyler, Texas.

2. Oct 22, 2016

   Mahomes sets the FBS single-game total offense record, 819 yards, against Oklahoma.

3. Apr 2017

   Kansas City trades up to the 10th pick of the NFL draft in Philadelphia and selects Mahomes.

4. Oct 25, 2017

   Panini releases 2017 Prizm Football, with Mahomes as rookie card #269.

5. Dec 31, 2017

   Mahomes makes his only start of the season, at Denver: 22 of 35 for 284 yards in a 27-24 win.

6. Jan 30, 2018

   The Chiefs trade Alex Smith to Washington, making Mahomes the starter.

7. Oct 2018

   A collector buys a PSA 10 copy of the card for $90.

8. 2018

   In his first season as a starter, Mahomes throws for 5,097 yards and 50 touchdowns and is named league MVP.

9. Feb 2, 2020

   Mahomes wins Super Bowl LIV, 31-20 over San Francisco, and is named its MVP.

10. Jul 6, 2020

    He signs a 10-year extension worth $477 million plus $26 million in bonuses.

11. Mar 23, 2021

    A PSA 10 copy sells online for $10,900, the highest PSA 10 sale in the record consulted.

12. Feb 12, 2023

    Mahomes wins Super Bowl LVII, 38-35 over Philadelphia, and his second Super Bowl MVP.

13. Feb 11, 2024

    Mahomes wins Super Bowl LVIII, 25-22 in overtime over San Francisco, and his third Super Bowl MVP.

14. Jan 5, 2025

    A one-of-one Black Finite autograph version of the card is reported listed for sale at $2 million.

15. Feb 9, 2025

    The Chiefs lose Super Bowl LIX to Philadelphia, 40-22.

16. Dec 14, 2025

    Mahomes tears his ACL.

17. Sep 28, 2026

    A PSA 10 copy sells for $8,100.

The world in 2017

• Jan 20, 2017

  Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president.

• Jan 21, 2017

  The Women's March draws an estimated 2.9 million participants nationwide.

• Feb 5, 2017

  New England beats Atlanta 34-28 in Super Bowl LI, the first Super Bowl decided in overtime.

• Feb 26, 2017

  Moonlight wins Best Picture after an envelope mix-up at the Academy Awards.

• Aug 21, 2017

  A total solar eclipse crosses the United States.

• Oct 1, 2017

  A mass shooting in Las Vegas kills 58 people.

• Nov 1, 2017

  The Houston Astros win the World Series.

• Dec 22, 2017

  The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is signed into law.

Price record

A realized private sale is a completed transaction outside an auction room. The amount is what changed hands on the date shown. Private sales are reported less consistently than auction results, so a single comparable carries less weight than a run of them.

By reference price, 2017 Panini Prizm Patrick Mahomes #269 RC is number 73 of 100 in the trading cards entries of the FLOAT 100. 97 of those 100 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (50 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.

Did you know

• In 2017 Panini printed only one standard finish, the Silver Prizm; from 2018 on, each player got both a plain base card and a separate Silver.
• A collector paid $90 for a PSA 10 copy in October 2018, before Mahomes had finished his first season as a starter.
• Mahomes played in exactly one regular-season game in his rookie-card year and threw no touchdown passes.
• He is the only quarterback with a 5,000-yard passing season in both college and the NFL.
• His father, Pat Mahomes, pitched in the major leagues for parts of 11 seasons.
• Many copies of the card carry a print line just left of Mahomes' shoulder, a flaw one collector estimated on close to half the base cards.