What's Buzzing: NFL chatter and pulls, Roki Sasaki, 2025 Topps and more in this Tuesday edition.

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What makes Buzz's Fantastic Four each time? Simple, they're cards or collectable items for names in the headlines -- or from new releases -- that came to mind for this veteran collector. Maybe they're good fits for your collection, too? Let's find out together ... 

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THE SAFE ADDITION ... 
The Card: Patrick Mahomes 2017 Donruss Rookie Card
The Price: A variety of eBay asking prices between base and parallels
Why It’s Buzzworthy: Today's modern card collectors have tons of choices -- it's not like the old days where a player had one, maybe two Rookie Cards in a year. But, if you had to choose which of Mahomes' RCs is the most iconic the simple one, Donruss, might get that nod from many collectors. Today's top QB appeared on roughly 2,000 different cards back in 2017 and that's thanks to plenty of inserts and parallel cards in plenty of releases. Of those, almost 40 qualify as a RC by the standard definition and Donruss -- or maybe its higher-end brother, Optic (at right) -- are arguably the iconic cards where many can afford to chase. If you don't have one, it can be as easy as grabbing a Donruss factory set that guarantees you can land Mahomes -- and everybody else.
The BlowoutCards.com Chase: 2017 Donruss NFL
The BlowoutForums.com Chatter: Mahomes threads

Keep reading for three more items in this roundup ...

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What's Buzzing: Talking Topps Chrome WWE, 2025 Topps MLB, NFL playoffs, NBA and more in this Sunday edition.

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What's Buzzing: Talking college football and NFL, 2025 Topps reactions and more in this Saturday edition.

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What: 2024 Panini Impeccable football cards
Arrives: Feb. 19, 2025
Box basics: Five or six autographs per box (three boxes per case)
Pre-order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Impeccable returns for its colorful chronicling of the NFL with a mix of past and present superstars and, of course, precious metals in every case.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What's Buzzing: College football and NFL chatter, 2025 Topps, vintage, Topps Now WWE and more.

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What's Buzzing: The 2025 Topps chatter is strong after a premature release, new pulls, awaiting Hall of Famer results and more in this Thursday edition.

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What: 2025 Pro Athletes Direct Authentic Football Signature Edition Retired Player Series football cards
Arrives: March 6
Box basics: One encased autographed buyback card per box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: See players list in gallery
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Pro Athletes Direct Authentic offers up some legendary names from the NFL ranks in a release of buyback autos that's debuting right here.

Keep reading for more info and a gallery of images.

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What: 2024 Panini Spectra football cards
Arrives: Feb. 12, 2025
Box basics: Four autos and four memorabilia cards per four-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Spectra hits once again packing all the star power of today's NFL as well as legends of the past all in its colorful lineup.

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What's Buzzing: NFL chatter, a printing plate pulled years later, 2025 Topps and more in this one.

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What: 2025 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Platinum Edition Autographed Football Jerseys
Arrives: Feb. 7
Box basics: One autographed jersey per box (four boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The newest arrival from the TRISTAR Hidden Treasures portfolio of autographed memorabilia releases drops just before the Super Bowl this year and it packs both Hall of Famers and current stars inside this time.

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What's Buzzing: A question from a collector, The Rock signs for a WWE set, NFL chatter and more.

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What: 2025 Pulse Meridian Football cards
Arrives: March 10
Box basics: Four encased autographed cards per six-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: See early players list in gallery
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: A new player in the prospect realm hits the gridiron for a second time in the new year with the stars of right now on cardboard as well as some greats from the past all in play.

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What's Buzzing: The first 2025 Topps teaser, new pulls, NFL chatter, players with something to prove, players who never got carded.

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What's Buzzing: Active discussions across the board this weekend -- new pulls, MLB, NBA, NFL, WWE and Topps Now in this Sunday edition.

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Your new WWE Women's Champion.

What's Buzzing: It's Tiffy Time, NFL Week 18 chatter, Victor Wembanyama, new pulls, Bobby Witt Jr. and more.

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For years now, autographed books coming direct from the publishers -- or direct from the authors themselves -- have been an affordable way to collect ink from notable names in all realms of pop culture.

It's not a perfect system with stamped autos, fakes and autopens sometimes in the mix -- a problem for publishers to catch as they are not authenticators -- but thanks to dedicated collectors on the Blowout Cards Forum and elsewhere, those problems often get caught and fixed ... or at least become well-known enough to avoid if it's an issue that goes uncorrected.

Getting ink in-person is always best -- book tours still happen, of course -- but landing autographed editions from publishers, online sellers or celebs themselves via their websites or other appearances are common.

Our latest subject and autograph in this ongoing series? Global icon Gisele Bündchen ... without the international premium price.

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What's Buzzing: Inside a new WWE case, NFL Week 18, a solid Triple Threads find and more in today's edition.

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What's Buzzing: Fun Face isn't done yet, new MLB pulls, a nutty thread, Victor Wembanyama, Topps Heritage and NFL chatter as we work toward the weekend.

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ...

THEY'RE BACK ... SOMETIME SOON
The Item: Stranger Things Season 1 Target-exclusive Blu-ray set (2016)
The Reason Bought: How many Netflix series these days get a physical DVD release of any kind? How many get chain store-exclusive variant versions? Not that much of anything TV gets a physical release, really, not at least anywhere near the volumes of the past and that thought, along with the fact that the final season of this franchise is finally dropping sometime this year, got me looking here. I really liked the feel of this DVD set that's made to look like an old 1980s VHS sleeve that's had plenty of wear and tear and I also liked the idea of a graded item with that feel -- one where its actual flaws can blend in well and not stand out as glaring reasons why an item didn't grade higher.
The Grade: CGC 9.4 (A+ seal)

Reality Check: There are definitely other* copies of this one graded, but a pop report doesn't yet appear to be live for CGC Home Video (or it was down when I prepped this) and my number didn't come up on the verification search, either. That's OK for me as slabbed movies and games aren't as high on my radar in slabs as cards and magazines in terms of a "commodity" ... these are more the kind of shelf item with maybe some longer-term potential substance to them. To me they're more of a name-your-price novelty -- and, as an aside, I do like CGC's cases a lot more than others in this realm. This was a relatively cheap addition as well -- less than a lot of retail card boxes -- and over time affordable items can build a collection. One scary part? This is not far away from being 10 years old ... time flies.

Keep reading for more of this month's pick-ups and new slabs for Buzz.

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What's Buzzing: Behind the scenes with Asuka signing Flawless WWE, new pulls, NFL chatter and ... is Topps Heritage done?

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What: 2025 TruMystery Football Chips Edition football cards
Arrives: Feb. 5
Box basics: One buyback card per box (four boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: TruCreator's buyback offerings are back for a new year with nothing but NFL stars in play -- "champions only" per the company -- with a mix of slabbed and un-slabbed notables in play.

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What's Buzzing: NFL chatter and pondering the MVP, showing off custom card creations, Jayden Daniels and more in this Monday edition.

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What's Buzzing: Collecting goals (new and old), breaking down a Prizm case, the point of prospecting, new pulls, NFL Week 17 and "current players no one is buying right now."

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What's Buzzing: New pulls, Jayden Daniels, pondering the NFL MVP, collecting goals for 2025 and more.

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