{"id":38752,"date":"2026-08-08T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=38752"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:32:06","slug":"%f0%9f%8f%88%f0%9f%8f%80%e2%9a%be-the-2026-draft-pick-drawing-recap-%f0%9f%8f%88%f0%9f%8f%80%e2%9a%be-three-rounds-three-lucky-winners-and-a-whole-lot-of-rookie-card-love-heres-how-it-went-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=38752","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfc8\ud83c\udfc0\u26be THE 2026 DRAFT PICK DRAWING RECAP \ud83c\udfc8\ud83c\udfc0\u26be Three rounds, three lucky winners, and a whole lot of rookie card love! Here&#8217;s how it went down: \ud83c\udfc8 Round 1 (NFL): Brutus on Baseball took the win with their Barry Sanders Rookie Card Set &#8211; bringing home a 2001 Topps Chrome Payton Rookie reprint, a $50 grading credit, and CGC swag! \ud83c\udfc0 Round 2 (NBA): ALPHA &#038; OMEGA CO. scored big with their Kobe Bryant Rookie Card Set &#8211; winning a 1996-97 Topps Stadium Club Finest Reprints Refractor, plus a $50 grading credit and swag! \u26be Round 3 (MLB): jdelmendo closed it out with their Derek Jeter Rookie Card Set &#8211; taking home a 1996 Topps Mantle Finest Reprints card, a $50 grading credit, and swag! Congrats to all"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc8\ud83c\udfc0\u26be THE 2026 DRAFT PICK DRAWING RECAP \ud83c\udfc8\ud83c\udfc0\u26be<br \/>Three rounds, three lucky winners, and a whole lot of rookie card love! Here&#8217;s how it went down:<br \/>\ud83c\udfc8 Round 1 (NFL): Brutus on Baseball took the win with their Barry Sanders Rookie Card Set &#8211; bringing home a 2001 Topps Chrome Payton Rookie reprint, a $50 grading credit, and CGC swag!<br \/>\ud83c\udfc0 Round 2 (NBA): ALPHA &#038; OMEGA CO. scored big with their Kobe Bryant Rookie Card Set &#8211; winning a 1996-97 Topps Stadium Club Finest Reprints Refractor, plus a $50 grading credit and swag!<br \/>\u26be Round 3 (MLB): jdelmendo closed it out with their Derek Jeter Rookie Card Set &#8211; taking home a 1996 Topps Mantle Finest Reprints card, a $50 grading credit, and swag!<br \/>Congrats to all our winners! \ud83c\udf89Huge shoutout to everyone who registered and made this drawing so much fun.<br \/>Want in on the next one? Start building your Registry set through the \ud83d\udd17in bio<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @CGCCards <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CGCCards\/status\/2086076267183460360\">Aug 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfc8\ud83c\udfc0\u26be THE 2026 DRAFT PICK DRAWING RECAP \ud83c\udfc8\ud83c\udfc0\u26beThree rounds, three lucky winners, and a whole lot of rookie card love! Here&#8217;s how it went down:\ud83c\udfc8 Round 1 (NFL): Brutus on Baseball took the win with their Barry Sanders Rookie Card Set &#8211; bringing home a 2001 Topps Chrome Payton Rookie reprint, a $50 grading credit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":38754,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[50,33],"class_list":["post-38752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-grading","tag-cgc","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38753,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38752\/revisions\/38753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}