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Laiatu Latu

2024 · Topps Chrome Football — Youthquake · #Y-9

Latu’s selected Youthquake issue broadens the modern defensive lineup.

Sport: Football
Year / season: 2024
Set: Topps Chrome Football — Youthquake
Number: #Y-9
Format: Card

About this card

Laiatu Latu’s 2024 Topps Chrome Football card is number Y-9 in that release, in the Youthquake edition. This is a chromium release: Topps prints the design on reflective stock, and its Refractor parallels add a rainbow sheen when the card is tilted, with colored and numbered Refractors above them.

It carries no rookie label. That is not a claim either way: the catalog adds the label only when a cited source supports it.

How to identify it

Base Chrome cards, Refractors and colored Refractors share a number, so tilt the card to read the finish and look for a serial number. Chrome and the paper set of the same year often share a design but are separate cards.

Youthquake is part of this card’s name: it marks an insert or parallel inside Topps Chrome Football, and the number on its own can point to a different card.

In Laiatu Latu’s run

This is the only Laiatu Latu entry in the catalog so far.

In the 2024 checklist

The catalog’s selected checklist for the 2024 Topps Chrome Football — Youthquake release also includes Dallas Turner, Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean. It is a partial checklist of cataloged cards, not the full release.

What to know about this issue

Topps identifies Latu as Y-9 in the insert checklist.
The regular Youthquake identity does not identify a particular finish or numbered parallel.

Inspect the source

Source reviewed 2026-10-08. The source describes this issue; it does not verify any item offered by a third party.

Topps: 2024 Chrome Football manufacturer checklist (opens in a new tab)

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The issue stays 2024 · Topps Chrome Football — Youthquake. These are research checks, not a condition assessment of a specimen.

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