Buzz Break: 2018 Panini Absolute Football cards (blaster box)

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The box: 2018 Panini Absolute Football cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 64
Base set completion: 
52 of 100 (52 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Derrick Henry, Cam Newton, Christian McCaffrey, Leonard Fournette, Russell Wilson, Eli Manning, J.J. Watt, DeAndre Hopkins, Deshaun Watson, Aaron Rodgers, Le'Veon Bell, Kareem Hunt, Antonio Brown, Drew Brees, Jimmy Garoppolo, Alvin Kamara, Matt Stafford, Sam Bradford, Andrew Luck, Ezekiel Elliott, Dak Prescott

Insert/short-print cards: 11 (all in gallery below with some base)
Rookies (SP) (4) –Equanimeous St. Brown, Alex McGough, Denzel Ward, Justin Reid
Spectrum Blue parallels (1) – Jerick McKinnon
1-2 Punch (1) – Jameis Winston & Mike Evans
Covering Ground (1) – LeSean McCoy
Introductions (2) – Calvin Ridley, Saquon Barkley
Late-game Heroics (1) – Nick Foles
Revolutionaries (1) – Joe Namath

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Newcomers (1) – James Washington

What's Buzz-worthy: Football season is here, so here's one more new NFL blaster. As said before, I might mark this one down as one of my favorite NFL brands for memorabilia cards with its Tools of the Trade creations being fun finds for years. These retail boxes guarantee a hit of some kind this year -- they didn't last year -- and that makes it feel a lot more like a brand formerly known as "Absolute Memorabilia." Blasters are the only places you'll find these Newcomers memorabilia cards as well as dual-mem cards. The insert lineup here was nearly identical to a previous blaster but this one delivered some good rookies among the inserts and a Hall of Famer. The one guaranteed Blue Spectrum parallel card (look for the logo in color when the rest aren't highlighted in color along with some extra sparkles) again wasn't flashy but that will happen when you only land one per box. I like the bit of variety of the inserts, though the Covering Ground cards seem bland, along with some aspects of the base cards here. (Foil stamping on the names makes them hard to read on some of the team background colors. The real stars in this brand are the hits and Rookie Cards, so if you like what you see check out a hobby box at the link above -- there's a lot more guaranteed there and it's absolutely the best way to go.

Product Grade: A-
Box Grade: A-
Fun Grade: B

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