What: 2016 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Gameday Greats Football Jerseys
Arrives: June 15
Box basics: One autographed jersey per box (five boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: TRISTAR's Hidden Treasures football brand returns with the fabric of the game -- autographed jerseys of notable players that collectors can chase via an affordable blind-wrapped box.

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The box: 2011 Topps football cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby) 

Packs per box: 10 (plus one manufactured Relic pack)
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 81
Base set completion: 
67 of 440 (15 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players found on base cards: Peyton Manning, Dez Bryant, Patrick Willis

Rookie Cards (16) – Notables include A.J. Green, Blaine Gabbert, Randall Cobb, Patrick Peterson

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, Draymond Green's greatness and new (old) football.

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Take a simple array of variation types to enhance a 1980s-inspired design for a checklist loaded with past, present and future greats and then add in some autographs, buybacks and other surprises for a bargain price and you get 2016 Panini Classics.

The retro-inspired modern release arrived today with an autograph in every 14-pack box and a memorabilia in every other box.

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What's Buzzing Today: A supply savior, big maildays, Bowman Lucky & analyzing pitchers.

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What: 2016 Panini Unparalleled football cards
Arrives: Aug. 10
Box basics: One autograph and two memorabilia cards per eight-pack box (16 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: This new line promises to have "never-before-seen designs, substrates and parallels" while offering a colorful look at the NFL via a rainbow that includes purple, teal, orange, red, blue, green, gold and black 1/1 cards to chase.

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What: 2016 Donruss football cards
Arrives: Aug. 3
Box basics: One autograph and one memorabilia card per 24-pack box (18 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Panini's Donruss brand hits the gridiron with aesthetic looks back to the past with today's biggest stars, two Peyton Manning tribute sets and some extra Fans of the Game who people will know throughout the galaxy -- oh, and a set that will give collectors a shot at their autographs, too.

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When 2016 Panini Classics football cards arrive next week, they will carry with them a new (old) look for the long-running brand.

They'll come printed on oldschool cardboard, too.

But that's not all that will be a throwback in the retro-styled brand -- there will be errors and variations for collectors to chase.

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What's Buzzing Today: Showing off Superfractors, a non-sports show haul, retro rips and the Rougned Odor-Jose Bautista feud.

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The biggest event of the year in terms of creating new football cards takes place this week as the 22nd annual NFLPA Rookie Premiere kicks off Thursday and runs though Saturday.

It's there where players will don their uniforms for the first time for photos for upcoming Panini America football cards.

“NFLPA Rookie Premiere is one of the most important events that we participate in annually, as it helps us set the stage for our entire football trading card products that we will release over the next 15 months," said Mark Warsop, Panini America CEO. “Serving for the first time as the NFLPA's exclusive trading card partner and presenting sponsor provides us with more opportunities than ever to execute a series of unique activations throughout the event, and create our best-ever product assortment for the new season.”

Today, the NFLPA released who'll be in attendance.

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What's Buzzing Today: Colorful 2016 Bowman autos in a case, Carson Wentz in Prime Signatures, long-gone Correas and more.

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The box: 2016 Score football cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 12
Cards per pack: 11
Cards in this box: 132
Base set completion: 
88 of 440 (20 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players found on base cards: Todd Gurley, Adrian Peterson, Julio Jones.

Rookie Cards (33) – Notables include Jared Goff, Connor Cook, Will Fuller, Kenyan Drake, Paxton Lynch, Braxton Miller.

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What: 2016 Leaf Autographed Mini-helmet Football
Arrives: Aug. 26
Box basics: One autographed mini-helmet per box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf offers "one of the single most popular packaged memorabilia products in the marketplace" with every box yielding a Hall of Famer, current NFL star, retired star or player with potential.

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What's Buzzing Today: The Walking Dead & Topps, Ghostbusters, Topps Heritage, big NFL pulls.

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This year's NFLPA Rookie Premiere is coming -- next week -- and it will have a new look to it as Panini America takes over as the exclusive trading card licensee for the NFL.

The company has been at work preparing for the event for months and it offered a teaser of what one product will include.

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It's two pieces of maple held together with three screws. A "TB12" logo is laser-etched into the surface and in between are pages of recipes printed on 100-pound full-color paper.

Its official name is the TB12™ Nutrition Manual and it's a cookbook. Its creator? New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Its cost? A mere $200.

And it's sold out.

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What's Buzzing Today: Showing off your Top 10 cards, 1990s NBA box breaks, Bartolo Colon's historic homer, 2015 Topps Diamond & Tim Duncan's cardboard.

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What's Buzzing Today: Moncada (and more) for Trout?, Tom Brady's cookbook, WWE breaks, impressive Q and some Supreme pulls.

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What: 2016 Certified football cards
Arrives: July 27
Box basics: Four autographs or memorabilia cards per 10-pack box (24 boxes per case via two inner cases)

What's buzz-worthy: This one will be the home of The Peyton Manning Collection, a five-card insert set that will have game-used jerseys and autographs, while every box will include one Rookie Patch Auto.

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but breaks in today's edition -- everything from football to soccer to wrestling from the past and present.

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What: 2016 Super Break Super Sixer Mixer
Arrives: May 6
Box basics: Between eight and 16 hits per six-pack box

What's buzz-worthy: Super Break's newest product includes a mix of baseball, football and basketball packs loaded with nothing but big cards in raw and graded form.

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Funko has four new lines of figures and accessories coming later this year for NFL fans and there's one way to know that these are a bit different than their past releases.

The hair.

The company teased its third series of Pop! figures as well as Wobblers, Dorbz Minis and keychains this week -- two of those are new additions to the company's lineup.

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What's Buzzing Today: Big maildays, 2016 Bowman, 2016 Score & what's an RC?

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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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