Jared Goff is your No. 1 pick in the 2016 NFL Draft and Panini America has revealed his first football card online to be found on its Gridiron digital card app soon.

Buzz will add all players drafted to this thread as the first round goes on just so you can see them all in one spot on samples of their real cardboard already available.

Buzz also will offer his take on the player's place, too, in a real-time recap.

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As the NBA postseason marches on so does the basketball card season and the latest release from Panini America is a high-end brand loaded with hits.

Every box of 2015-16 Panini Luxe, which arrived this week, packs just four cards inside and they are all autographs or memorabilia cards for a premium price.

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The arrival of 2016 Score football cards on Wednesday marks the start of the NFL card season and a new landscape for the league when it comes to cardboard.

None of this year's rookies have been drafted yet -- that starts on Thursday night -- so they're found in their college colors as part of the product, which includes four autographs or memorabilia cards in every jumbo box. 

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This year's NFL Draft begins tomorrow night in Chicago, but Panini America has been busy at work the last couple of days signing plenty of players.

And it didn't even have to trade a single pick.

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What: 2016 Panini Gala football cards
Arrives: July 20
Box basics: Four autographs or memorabilia cards and one base card per five-card box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Gala comes to the gridiron with the same formula seen with basketball -- the most-notable trait being short-printed Rookie Cards limited to only eight copies.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What: 2016 Panini Clear Vision football cards
Arrives: July 13
Box basics: One autograph or memorabilia card per six-pack box (18 boxes per case via two nine-box inners)

What's buzz-worthy: The all-acetate show that is Clear Vision returns with four autographs per 18-box case (twice as many as last year) in a product where all hits are limited to no more than 99 copies.

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What: 2015-16 Panini Gala basketball cards
Arrives: June 29
Box basics:  Four autographs or memorabilia cards and one base card per five-card box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The second edition of Gala arrives with a new batch of Rookie Cards limited to only eight copies, while all autographs and memorabilia cards are limited to no more than 60 copies.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Museum Collection, big NFL pulls, Bill Gates' money, Mickey Mantle's RC & more.

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The recent arrival of 2015 Panini Flawless football cards marked a new wave of high-end cards for fans to consider and a new wave of impressive possibilities for autographs and dazzling memorabilia displayed within cardboard.

Sometimes it's simple, sometimes it's not.

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What: 2015-16 Panini Black Gold basketball cards
Arrives: June 29
Box basics:  Four autographs or memorabilia cards per two-pack box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: After two years on the gridiron, Black Gold comes to basketball bringing its acetate- and gold-laden lineup to the international game with some looks back at the ABA, too.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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With the clock ticking down to this year's edition of the NFL Draft, Panini America is readying its cardboard efforts made just for the event and the interactive sideshow that has become Draft Town.

The company has produced a 10-card set and a 5-by-7 set of three cards that also can be obtained at the event.

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What: 2016 Donruss Elite football cards
Arrives: June 29
Box basics: Two autographs and one memorabilia card per 20-pack box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: On-card autographs will be found in every box while prime materials will have a strong presence here within a new-look take on a hobby staple.

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What: 2015-16 Panini Spectra basketball cards
Arrives: June 8
Box basics:  Seven autographs or memorabilia cards per 10-card box (five boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Spectra combines memorabilia with ink on every autographed card in the brand with jumbo memorabilia pieces to be found elsewhere in a package that's nearly all about the hits and a rainbow of color.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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He's one of this season's biggest surprises and on cardboard he's one of the best-kept secrets.

He's Jeremy Hazelbaker, an outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, and he's a secret because he's not had many baseball cards of note -- not a single certified autograph -- in years.

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The latest edition of Diamond Kings arrived with a unique look and some of the biggest players in the history of the game available on memorabilia cards.

Guys like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ken Griffey Jr., Roberto Clemente and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson to name a few.

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San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard just finished his fifth season in the NBA and he's already added to a strong resume that should spark interest in his perhaps still-overlooked cards.

He was named the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year for the second season in a row on Monday and that puts him in some elite territory as only the eighth player in league history to win the award in back-to-back seasons and just the ninth multi-time winner.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Showing off hot new cards and old cheap favorites and then a mess of over-delivering wax and odd surprises.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: The Michigan Wolverines, best steals, big breaks in football and a big non-sport break, too.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls dominate this all-breaks edition of Board Buzz with Topps Heritage, Museum Collection, Panini Contenders Draft and more found inside.

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What: 2015-16 Panini Anthology hockey cards
Arrives: May 4
Box basics: At least four hits guaranteed per six-card box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Panini returns to hockey for one final release with a all-hits brand with plenty of mystery as no images for the cards were released.

Keep reading for more.

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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 the fourth grading diary here on The Buzz ...

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As the Black Mamba prepares for his final game, Panini America is offering a timely tribute.

The "Zircus" -- a zoo and a circus -- happens on Wednesday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles as Kobe Bryant plays his final NBA game, and that's the same day that a "HeroVillain" boxed set will begin shipping.

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The new crop of NFL hopefuls are here and Panini America's first college release with all of those future stars in their school colors can be found in 2016 Panini Contenders Draft Picks.

And just like last year's rookie season for this brand -- and the past NFL Contenders releases -- there are plenty of short-prints, which Panini has detailed.

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What: 2015-16 Panini Excalibur basketball cards
Arrives: May 18
Box basics:  Three autographs or memorabilia cards per six-pack box (20 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The regal feel of Excalibur returns with the same explosive inserts but a new lineup of rookies and a heavy number of RCs and inserts per box.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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When Panini America revived the Diamond Kings brand last year its return was marked with one of the biggest names in the history of the game.

Babe Ruth.

This year, The Bambino is in there once again -- and there's plenty more to be found from baseball's past as well as its present.

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