Buzz Break: 2023 SAGE High Series football cards (blaster)

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The box: 2023 SAGE High Series football cards (blaster box)
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Packs per box: 6 (five standard, one three-card autos pack)
Cards in this box: 74
Base set completion: 50 of 101 (50 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Bryce Young, Kade Warner, Joey Porter Jr., Devon Witherspoon, Dalton Kinkaid, Jordan Addison, Will Levis, Michael Mayer, Bijan Robinson, Will Anderson Jr., C.J. Stroud, Will Levis

Insert/short-prints cards: 21 (a sampling of everything in gallery below)
Silver parallels (20) – Bryce Young, Cedric Tillman, Dalton Kincaid, Lindsey Scott Jr., Devon Achane, Chase Brown, Jake Haener, Tank Dell, Noah Gindorff, Luke Schoonmaker, Ellis Merriweather, Zach Charbonnet, Eric Gray, Joey Porter Jr., Trey Palmer
Peak Performance Gold (1) – Kade Warner

Autographs/Memorabilia: 3
Rookie Autographs (2) – Trea Shropshire, Jimmy Phillips
Red Rookie Autographs (1) – Cody Mauch

What's Buzz-worthy: I don't collect football all that deeply like some of you out there but a three-auto box at a $19.99 (or less with sales) mark with the No. 1 pick in play gets me to bite once. I landed both the base and the parallel of Bryce Young so that hit the spot for me and then three autos were in there, too. Kurt Warner's son in her on a base card and then the only foilboard insert was a nice trivia touch, though I'm not sure how much long-term interest there might be there ... but as a collector I don't mind it. The design here is pretty smooth and a solid one among the recent years of SAGE releases, though the switch to silver for the parallels isn't easy to spot until you realize the scheme and volumes in a box (see the side panel on box image above). The issue? The difference between shades of black (i.e. gray) isn't dramatically different than silver on the base ... but I still like the framing devide for the images. The subsets add variety here, too, but I think blasters need one or two other card types to add some variety here. With Young and other top names in play here, I think these boxes do have some good potential though the deep auto list will make them elusive at times, though there are mega boxes as well as hobby boxes that are loaded with ink.

Product Grade: B+ (I like potential here with No. 1 pick in mix)
Box Grade: B
Fun Grade: B+ (do hobby for all the ink)

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