What: 2024 Topps Inception football cards
Arrives: March 21, 2025
Box basics: Two autographs and one memorabilia card per seven-card box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Inception hits the gridiron for a new run with Topps, packing a trio of hits in every box with plenty of color and variety showcasing past and present football stars.

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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 Topps Finest football cards
Arrives: March 7, 2025
Box basics: Two autos per six-pack box (eight per case) or three autos per one-pack breaker box (eight per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Finest hits the football field once again with plenty of color and flash for selected newcomers and plenty of retired stars all in one spot.

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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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What: 2025 Leaf Metal Hockey Legends hockey cards
Arrives: March
Box basics: Three autographs per box (20 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Legends of the ice take to Metal once again after some time off with a release that;'s all about autographs while packing plenty of variety and color.

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What: 2024 Wild Card Five Card Draw football cards
Arrives: Jan. 31, 2025
Box basics: Five encased autographed cards per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Wild Card's numbers-based presentation ups the ante this time with more big-name chases and other surprises for college and pro standouts -- and once again every card is numbered to no more than five copies across the entire release, which also includes a 1/1 card in every box.

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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.

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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: 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: 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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What: 2024 Donruss football cards
Arrives: Nov. TBD
Box basics: One autograph and one memorabilia card per 18-pack hobby box (18 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Donruss drops for a new season with plenty of colorful inserts and parallels as it showcases today's stars while also including plenty of nods to the past with a modern-retro design.

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What: 2024 Leaf Ultimate Sports
Arrives: Nov. 29
Box basics: Three hits per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This one arrives with "one of the most-expansive multi-sport checklists in hobby history" that touched on many icons from around the globe.

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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: 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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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: 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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What: 2024 Leaf Electrum Football cards
Arrives: Sept. 30
Box basics: Six autographed cards per 10-card box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf brings its new line to the gridiron with a mix of past and present icons as well as potential newcomers on NIL deals, too, enhancing the colorful lineup of stars.

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Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ...

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THE FORCE WAS STRONG ... 
The Item: Daisy Ridley autographed Star Wars: The Force Awakens IMAX 3D ticket (/500) -- BAS Authenticated
The Price: Less than a couple Chrome boxes
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: The next Star Wars film is in pre-production -- Star Wars: New Jedi Order coming in 2026 -- and it apparently pushes forward more than a decade from the last film with Rey Skywalker its main character. Hearing that much alone got me thinking I should really track down a Ridley auto now vs. later -- she has signed a lot but prices are perhaps softer now than they may have been in the past. Well, at least in theory ... she's seemingly always been expensive. So here we are. I had a few rules for looking here -- I wanted a full-name sig for sure, an on-card auto and a decent presence/feel for the item ... whether it be an item, an oversized photo or something else that might display a little better than merely a card. I wanted something clean and unique but also safe for a price that I'd stretch a little to get to since she's pricey. I opted for a seemingly Fanatics-adjacent seller where a number of big-ticket items reside without the massive prices that can come with those names and opted for this oversized commemorative ticket for an IMAX showing in Chicago -- only 500 numbered tickets made for each week of the promotion per location in late 2015 and early 2016 during its first run. I don't do a lot of tickets, but I liked the promotional twist and serial-numbered volume here (albeit it's only limited to 500 per venue) and then it being signed and encased gives it a nice feel in an oversized slab. This was substantially discounted by a third or maybe half of a typical price (they have a few) so I bit. Unsigned, it's not a pricey item but this felt cooler to me for its price than a lot of pricier certified auto cards.
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What: 2023 Panini One football cards
Arrives: June 19, 2024
Box basics: One encased on-card autograph or autographed memorabilia card per box (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: One returns for the gridiron with an all-in-one approach in every box -- and it's only one card for this sport -- with stars from the "hottest rookies, biggest superstars and greatest legends -- one jaw-dropper at a time."

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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 TRISTAR Best Of All Time autographed memorabilia
Arrives: May 10
Box basics: Four autographed memorabilia pieces per case
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: TRISTAR dips into the autographed memorabilia realm with a crop that reflects its name -- only the best of all time are in play.

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: A Shohei Ohtani-related scandal, CGC's new addition, Peyton Manning, card alterations, grails and more.

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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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What: 2024 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Autographed Mini Helmets
Arrives: March 29
Box basics: One autographed mini helmet per box (eight boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: TRISTAR's Hidden Treasures line drops for a new year with a new assortment of NFL and college helmets in the mix and some of the biggest names in the history of the game among them.

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