What: 2025 Leaf Football Nation baseball cards
Arrives: Nov. 28
Box basics: Five autos per six-card hobby box (12 per case) or 10 autos per 12-card jumbo box (eight per case)
Checklist: See gallery
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: A new name in the Leaf lineup hits the gridiron and includes a mix of past and present stars with a meaty mix of flashy signed and unsigned cards in both box formats.

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What: 2025 Wild Card Metallix Promo Deck football cards
Arrives: Late September
Basics: Five encased cards (/25 max) per box (20 boxes per case) -- four autographs and one True 1/1 per case
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Wild Card moves away from its ink-only approach with this one, instead focusing on a simpler lineup that includes five card types and then some other chases along with the autographs a few times per case.

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What: 2025 Wild Card COMIX Rookie & Legend Edition football cards
Arrives: Late September
Basics: Five encased serial-numbered cards (/25 max) per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Wild Card explores top stars of the past with promising players of today in a colorful release packed with variety and with four autographed cards per typical case here.

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What: 2025 Wild Card Pre-historic football cards
Arrives: May 23
Box basics: Four autographed cards per case on average (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Wild Card's dinosaurs once again get all pre-historic on the gridiron showcasing football stars in colorful ways with all cards in this one capped at no more than 25 copies apiece.

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What: 2024 Wild Card Alumination Just The Hits Edition football cards
Arrives: March 14, 2025
Basics: Five encased and serial-numbered cards per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Wild Card continues with its encased-card approach with a release that's got long-odds potential of the biggest kind -- Patrick Mahomes auto 1/1s -- as well as plenty of other fun finds.

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What: 2024 Wild Card Dino-Might football cards
Arrives: Feb. 21, 2025
Box basics: Three autographed cards per case on average (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Wild Card's prehistoric-powered insert set gets a full football release packed with nothing but stars in the pro and college ranks -- and sometimes they're found on the same card.

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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.

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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.

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What: 2024 Wild Card Seven Card Studs High Stakes Metal football cards
Arrives: Jan. 17, 2025
Box basics: 84 autographed cards per case (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Wild Card ups the ante with a follow-up to its Seven Card Studs line of nothing but quarterbacks past, present and future with an all-autograph edition.

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What: 2024 Wild Card 7 Card Studs Metal All Quarterback Edition football cards
Arrives: Dec. 6
Box basics: Four autographed cards and four 1/1 Joker cards per case (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Wild Card's once again on a very numbers-based presentation but this time it keeps the boxes more affordable with scarcity being the norm in every pack but the autographs and 1/1 chase cards arriving a few times per case -- with some of the biggest names in the game among those possibilities.

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The box: 2023 Topps Composite football cards
First Buzz preview & checklist/odds: Click here 
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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What happens when an established college cardboard commodity has a break-out game? We're about to find out ...

Texas Longhorns redshirt freshman QB Arch Manning -- the nephew of Eli and Peyton -- propelled his team to a dominating victory on Saturday and to the top of the AP rankings with a crazy day in relief of an injured starter, Quinn Ewers.

Manning completed nine of 12 passes for 223 yards and four touchdowns and also rushed for one more in a 56-7 drubbing of UTSA and that's just one more reason why people are buying and chasing down his cards from Panini America right now and perhaps more than ever before. That chasing wasn't a new thing -- he was a known player on cardboard (Thanks, NIL!) since before his first real snaps for Texas last season (one game) and first TDs (one passing, one rushing in some garbage time) last month.

Just like that, Manning has seemingly arrived -- depending on Ewers' injury status -- and just like the Heisman chatter the cardboard chatter has intensified for a lot of his stuff, which was already selling well.

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The box: 2024 Panini Score-A-Treat football cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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What: 2024 Leaf Trinity Football cards
Arrives: Oct. 30
Box basics: Six autographed cards per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Trinity takes the field for another season with what Leaf says is "the most veteran content ever put into a Trinity product" while also including some new things and new NIL-deal players, too.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices right now right here as the newly launched Blowout Cards NFL Draft Supersale is here.

A few of them caught Buzz's attention with their potential ... here are some picks from that group in the sale that just dropped ahead of the NFL Draft next week.

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BOWMAN'S BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
2022 Bowman's Best University hobby box & eight-box case
The newest box in the big sale is one with a lot of potential between guys who are set to be drafted soon -- or perhaps later -- as well as cards and autos from guys who are already in the NFL. How is this possible? NIL deals that let players show up on cards well before draft time -- and that makes it one with a longer shelf life in terms of potential. Who's in here? Among the already-pro names are C.J. Stroud, Jahmyr Gibbs, Bryce Young, Anthony Richardson, Jordan Addison, Bijan Robinson, Will Anderson and Jaxon Smith-Njigba for starters. Among the 2024 draft hopefuls and potential future picks? Caleb Williams, Bo Nix, J.J. McCarthy, Blake Corum, Jordan Travis, D.J. Uiagalelei, Dallas Turner, J.C. Latham, Kool-Aid McKinstry and Taulia Tagovailoa to name a few. There are autos for a lot -- it not all -- of them in both insert sets and standard ink as well as a small lineup of rarer dual- and triple-auto cards, too. (There's heat here -- especially when slabbed.) The best part here beyond all of the parallel and potentially Super finds in play are two autographs in every single box. Cases should also be considered here, too.

Keep reading for a few more boxes you should consider (and are likely to end up in Buzz's cart).

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What: 2024 Leaf Metal football cards
Arrives: June
Box basics: Five autos and two base/parallels per hobby box (12 boxes per case) or nine autos, one slabbed 1/1 auto proof and four base/parallels per jumbo box (eight per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Metal is back for another season on the gridiron with two box options once again and with plenty of ink from past, present and future standouts all in play.

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The box: 2022 Panini Select Draft Picks football cards (Fanatics blaster)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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The pack: 2022 Panini Prestige NFL cards (jumbo)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (in a few formats)

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What: 2024 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Platinum Edition Autographed Football Jerseys
Arrives: Feb. 9
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 its Hall of Famers in there this time -- just part of what's in store here -- are only players who were in the big game.

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With these Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud stories I'm turning just a tiny bit of that energy just a few degrees away from cards (we'll still have plenty of them here) for a different kind of cardboard. What am I doing? Simple ... this is an occasional dip into some random ticket lots -- a show and tell showing something small with a story.

This time? An NFL Salute to Service game with the look to prove it and a big-time game for a rookie, too.

Keep reading to see the details this time ... and tell me if you think it's a Ticket Stud or a Ticket Dud.

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The pack: 2022 Panini Prestige NFL cards (jumbo)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (in a few formats)

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Update: The auction ended at $102,500 after 36 bids on Saturday night.

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The newest chapter in the story of an iconic football family has a new home and a new card.

Texas Longhorns QB Arch Manning -- the grandson of NFL QB  Archie Manning and nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning -- has signed an NIL deal with Panini America, which was revealed on Tuesday along with his debut card, which is up for auction right now.

"Manning’s multi-year alliance with Panini America represents his only NIL agreement to date and includes exclusive autographed trading cards," read a formal reveal from the company.

Keep reading for the details as they stand now ... and for the auction link.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The pack: 2022 Panini Prestige NFL cards (jumbo)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (in a few formats)

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The box: 2022 Panini Mosaic NFL (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

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The box: 2015 Topps Finest football hobby blister pack
The cost: Click here (these and hobby boxes)

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2022 Panini Prestige NFL cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available)

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