well This card is a 1997. His rookie season is (96'-97) Although the 1996 Edge card is him in college. This is edge's First card with him on a actually team. This card came out before the (97'-98) season begun. All the other edge set cards are college photo's this is Edge's first L.A. Lakers photo of him, plus it is a parallel card foil not base card, making it even more rare then the 1997 Collector Egde impulse card non-foil.