Former Mississippi State and current Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is being accused of using a machine to sign autographs for a memorabilia company instead of signing by hand according to ESPN’s Darren Rovell.
Beckett Grading Services, which evaluates and values trading cards, has refused to verify the authenticity of Prescott’s signatures on cards from Panini’s 2016 Prizm set.
“They had a very machine-like feel,” said Beckett principal authenticator Steve Grad in an ESPN.com story. “You could see the starts and stops.”
Grad said that the lack of natural flow associated with organic signatures led to his belief that the signatures were done by autopen, a machine that has been used by politicians to sign documents in bulk since the 1950s.