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What's Buzzing: NFLPA pulls plug on Panini deal, new pulls, comic books, other lawsuits and ... LeBron James with Fanatics?

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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: Showing off 1/1 NBA cards, Tom Brady, NFL player card control, a big development and some impressive new pulls.

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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: 2021 Panini Chronicles Draft Picks football cards (blaster)
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Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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

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New NCAA rules allowing college athletes making money off their likeness -- and signing autographs -- will mean amateurs are coming to cardboard very soon with Panini America now in on the action.

The company revealed Thursday that it has joined teams with OneTeam Partners, a leader in the group licensing space, to "produce, distribute, promote and sell college trading cards featuring current men’s and women’s college athletes who opt-in to OneTeam’s College Athlete Group Licensing program." Panini intends to create athletes' cards for several sports including football, basketball, baseball and the Olympic sports for both men's and women's competitors in the program.

"The trading card market is booming, and Panini is the leader in the category," said Ahmad Nassar, CEO of OneTeam, in a prepared release. "With its existing current college licenses, there is an amazing opportunity to make co-branded college and current college athlete cards for the first time in history – across schools and men’s and women’s sports. The group-licensing model is key to including athletes in broad-based licensed products like this."

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Updated (April 21): Check out the video below for a closer look at the set that is available from Topps right now along with more details and a gallery of what's in this release.

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Cardboard apparently is a family thing.

Trevor Lawrence is coming to Topps cards next month with a 50-card set designed by his sister-in-law and brother. The former Clemson star and likely No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft will be the focus, though details have not yet been fully released, according to a Sportico piece.

“We always try to celebrate and chronicle what’s going on in sports and pop culture,” Topps' director of e-commerce Jeff Heckman said in the piece. “This is the first time we’ve done anything like this.”

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The rookies are set to shine -- and now we know who's made the cut.

The 39 rookies set to attend this year's NFLPA Rookie Premiere have been revealed and they'll all ascend upon Los Angeles beginning Thursday to sign their cards, appear in their full NFL uniforms for memorabilia cards and for photographs that you'll see on cards in Panini America packs this season.

Here's a rundown of all players scheduled to appear.

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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: 2017 Panini Contenders Draft Picks football cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby) 

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 42
Base set completion: 
26 of 100 (26 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players found on base cards – Jim Brown, Russell Wilson, J.J. Watt, Ezekiel Elliott, Julio Jones, Marcus Allen, Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers

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One of the hobby's most chattered-about deals is now official.

Panini America and the NFL have signed a multi-year exclusive deal for trading cards and stickers that will begin before next year's NFL Draft. Combined with a previous exclusive with the NFLPA that was announced in August 2014, Panini will be the only company that will make fully licensed football cards beginning next year.

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