2025 Topps Chrome Football Sam LaPorta Refractor Purple /75

Sam LaPorta · 2025 Topps Chrome Football · Purple Refractor #/75 · Detroit Lions TE · #100

This is one of the most historically significant Chrome cards to exist in modern football collecting. 2025 Topps Chrome Football marks the first fully licensed Topps NFL release since 2015 — a decade-long wait that makes every parallel in this set carry genuine landmark status. LaPorta lands at card #100 in the 400-card base set, and this Purple Refractor serial-numbered to just 75 copies sits at a meaningful inflection point in the rainbow: scarcer than the Blue (/150) and Green (/99), with only the White (/30), Orange (/25), Black (/10), Red (/5), and SuperFractor above it.

• Set context: The first licensed Topps Chrome Football product since Panini's decade-long exclusive — a comeback collectors have been anticipating for years
• Player: Sam LaPorta, Detroit Lions TE — a proven target in one of the NFL's most potent offenses, with 20 touchdowns across his first 42 regular-season games and a career-best 82.0 PFF overall grade in 2025
• Print run: Numbered /75 — one of the tightest numbered base parallels in the entire set before you reach single-digit territory
• Card number: #100 — a clean, collector-friendly number in the flagship Chrome base set
• Demand signal: LaPorta's base Refractor was already showing "Out of Stock" across major marketplace listings at launch, underscoring how quickly his Chrome cards are moving

LaPorta enters the 2026 season with extension talks underway in Detroit and a full bounce-back expected after a back injury ended his 2025 campaign early. He was averaging over 11 fantasy points per game when healthy and was on pace for career-high receiving yards. Buy-low window on a legitimate TE1 with 75-copy Chrome scarcity is the exact opening smart collectors don't sleep on.

Available at Collector Station, Easley, SC. Local pickup available. All sales final. Shipping damage must be reported within 48 hours of delivery with photos.