Buzz Break: 2023 ONIT Athlete Alabama football cards

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The pack: 2023 ONIT Athlete University of Alabama NIL football cards
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Where to buy:  None for this one ... click here for more college football

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery for what was in this one.

Cards per pack: 15 (14 cards and one info card)
Set completion: 
14 of 148 (9 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Jase McClellan, Caleb Downs, Ja'Corey Brooks, Malik Benson, Isaiah Bond, Earl Little II, Deontae Lawson, Damon Payne Jr., Tim Smith, Miles McVay, James Burnip, Khurtiss Perry

Short-printed cards: 2 (all cards in gallery below)
Parallel series tier (1) – Isaiah Bond
Icon series tier (1) – J.C. Latham

Autographs/Memorabilia: None (autos found in 10 percent of packs or one per bundle/box from ONIT)

What's Buzz-worthy: My third and final (for now) rip of this one offered up a few notables from the team but also one of the notables who has left for elsewhere twice ... so a win, but a bummer thanks to the transfer portal. You know, extra chaos that probably doesn't help demand for cards. Ultimately this pack included the same stuff as last time in terms of the rarer finds and instead of being a QBs pack this one is more about WRs/RBs. ... As I noted last time, the world since the NCAA rule changes on NIL (aka Name, Image and Likeness) rights has upended college football to be sure, and that's also applied to a degree to trading cards with who's got what, who's got who among the licenses and players definitely confusing between the major manufacturers, the college draft pick card-makers and others who are in the game. In this case, ONIT has taken a team and sport approach with releases for a more than 30 schools and a number of sports all findable as packs or in pack bundles or boxes that guarantee an auto there. Which sports? Well for this school there are football, baseball, basketball and softball releases. Other schools also have volleyball, soccer, gymnastics and hockey ... so there are a lot of firsts possible here for cardboard, especially for the sports without a lot of cardboard in general. ... Check out my other breaks for more thoughts here.

Product Grade: A-
Pack Grade: B+ (thanks to Bond cards and other notables)
Fun Grade: B

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