The Most Wanted NFL Autographs Right Now, and What They Cost

Ask which NFL autographs are worth chasing and you'll get a list of great players. That's the easy half. The harder and more useful question is what those signatures cost, and why two quarterbacks with nearly identical resumes can sit a thousand dollars apart.

Here's where the top of the market stands, with real prices from our own shelves as of September 2026.

Patrick Mahomes

Three Super Bowl rings, three Super Bowl MVPs and two league MVPs, with five Super Bowl appearances behind him. Only Tom Brady has more Super Bowl MVPs, and Mahomes is still in the middle of his career.

A signed Mahomes mini helmet runs about 1,590 to 1,680 dollars here, and we rarely have more than a handful of his items at a time. That scarcity is the whole story: he signs under an exclusive arrangement, the supply is metered, and the demand is as high as it gets for an active player. You can see what we currently hold in Mahomes signed memorabilia.

Tom Brady

Seven rings, five Super Bowl MVPs, and the most expensive signature in our football catalog. Brady items run from roughly 2,090 to 5,040 dollars depending on what he signed, with the middle of our range sitting near 3,850.

He retired in 2023, which means supply is now fixed apart from whatever comes back onto the market from private hands. Nothing about that price is going to get easier. Brady signed memorabilia is the smallest and priciest shelf we keep.

Joe Montana, and the best value argument in football

Four Super Bowl titles, three Super Bowl MVPs. On the resume he's Mahomes' equal, and by some readings ahead of him.

A signed Montana mini helmet starts around 329 dollars on our site. A signed Mahomes mini helmet starts at 1,589. Same position, same item, roughly the same trophy case, and a gap of well over a thousand dollars.

The reason isn't a judgment about who was better. Montana has been signing for decades, appears regularly on the show circuit, and there's simply a lot of his handwriting in the world. Mahomes is still playing, signs under contract, and every item is rationed. Supply explains almost the entire difference, which is the single most useful thing a collector can understand about this market. We dig into it properly in sports memorabilia versus stocks and bonds. Meanwhile Montana signed memorabilia is one of the deeper shelves we stock, which is exactly why it's affordable.

Aaron Rodgers

Four league MVPs and a Super Bowl, and a signature that has been reliably in demand on Green Bay items for twenty years.

There's a timing element here worth knowing. Rodgers re-signed with Pittsburgh for the 2026 season and has said plainly that it's his last, which puts him in the window where supply stops expanding. We hold very little of him at the moment, generally around 1,020 to 1,050 dollars, and you can check Rodgers signed memorabilia for what's on the shelf.

Jim Brown

Nine seasons, eight rushing titles, and an argument that he's the greatest football player who ever lived. He also walked away after the 1965 season while still the best back in football, which limited how much he ever signed compared with players who stuck around into their late thirties.

Brown died in May 2023 at 87. His supply is now permanently fixed, and it shows: our Jim Brown items run from about 1,680 to 2,800 dollars, which is Mahomes money for a man who last played in 1965. See Jim Brown signed memorabilia for what is left.

The names moving right now

If you'd rather buy into a career than a legacy, these are the current players collectors are actually asking us for.

• Justin Jefferson. The deepest current-player shelf we carry, roughly 39 items from about 289 dollars up past 2,000 depending on the piece. He averages more receiving yards per game than all but one player in NFL history. See Justin Jefferson signed memorabilia.
• Ja'Marr Chase. The 2024 receiving triple crown winner, and still one of the cheapest elite signatures in the building at around 289 to 389 dollars. See Ja'Marr Chase signed memorabilia.
• Josh Allen. Around 840 to 1,360 dollars. See Josh Allen signed memorabilia.
• Saquon Barkley. Coming off the most productive single rushing season in NFL history, and still roughly 550 to 750 dollars. Barkley signed memorabilia.
• Jayden Daniels. Early career, roughly 420 to 840 dollars, which is what a rising signature looks like before the market decides.

Worth saying what we don't have: we carry no Lamar Jackson and no Joe Burrow at the moment. Exclusive signing agreements route those two elsewhere, and rather than pretend otherwise, we'd point you at the names above. The same gap explains why our quarterback shelf skews toward legends, which we wrote about in which signed quarterback jerseys are worth the money.

Why the prices look backwards

Read the numbers above in order and they make no sense on talent alone. A retired legend with four rings costs a fifth of an active quarterback with three. A running back who last played sixty years ago costs more than a receiver who is currently the best in the league.

Three things set the price, and greatness is only one of them. Supply is the biggest: how much did he sign, and can he still sign more. Demand follows fame rather than quality, which is why quarterbacks cost more than anyone. And the item itself matters, because the same signature on the right piece is worth multiples of the same signature on the wrong one.

Prices here move, so treat these as a September 2026 snapshot rather than a price list. Before you buy anything at this level, run the five checks we use, and make sure you can confirm the signature is real on the authenticator's own database first.