Aug 25, 2026
Which NFL Cards Should You Buy for 2026? | The Hype #449
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The home court, sorry, almost at home field. It's home court advantages, which is similar to your downtowns. Those are going to be the big chase. We're going to discuss those and the product itself. We're going to be breaking 10 case breaks on Fanax Live as well as five case breaks on FNAX Live. And of course pick your team on the website mojo break.com which we just launched our consignment service. So if you do get one of these nice Cooper flag home court advantages and you want to get it up on ebay the next day and you're in a mojo break.com break, easy to do. So you choose a hundred percent store credit to get back into other breaks or you can choose the percentage of the payout you want in cash. So check it out. @mojo break.com we also have a nice 10% off Chrome basketball. So imagine getting 10% and hitting the Cooper flag and then selling it during consignment. You can use promo code Chrome Basketball 10. It's kind of long, but Chrome Basketball 10 for 10% off your basketball break. @mojo break.com we're also going to have an NFL draft between the three of us today where we're going to pick a rookie qb, a veteran QB, and then a non vet rookie or a vet or a rookie or you'll see. So stay tuned for that. I'm crossed up, but how you guys doing? It's Monday. What are you doing? Chilling. What did we have this week. I mean actually crazy thing we had motif last week and then we roll into this week we have another basketball release. Back to back basketball releases. Yep. And we just finished off the week with some flagship football too. Football, which was great. It was great in the shop. All The 1 of 1 Mendoza is basically hit right now. Right? Is that from. I understand. Scrub. one-of-one so who cares? Yu-Gi-Oh there you go. So you're not picking Fernando Mendoza in the NFL? I mean I didn't say that. But you know, I'm. I'm looking for some honey to John, you know? Honey to John. That's right. Rookies. We don't know. We don't know who that is. Oh, you will. You will. But we're doing quarterbacks, right? Quarterbacks to start. And then you get a wild card, you get a non qb and it can be a rookie or a vet. Doesn't have to be a rookie. It could be a vet. He's going to be bouncing around that Australia field like a kangaroo come September 10th. So I got. I got one. Okay. I like it. I. Well, the Rams one-of-one 37 to 0. They did. It's pre season. Yu-Gi-Oh I mean all of this, I'll just say it's preseason undefeated. They have been absolutely dominating with their fourth and fifth string players out there. I don't even know why the Niners are even going to show up for the season. Just stay. Why? Anyone should sell. No, nobody should. Well, we have a lot more. We have a lot more hall of Fame. Here's the thing is we're. We're all an owner. Well, it doesn't matter. You don't need an owner to play football. So you know. Too soon? Yu-Gi-Oh it's too. I think. Well, let's talk. We'll talk about it. Okay. Well. Okay, we'll talk about it Friday. There'll be enough videos out there when we're on collect. It was. It was Yu-Gi-Oh one-of-one we don't know enough. I. Okay. This was a moment. This was the first moment. I think I have had the legit. I feel like I know a lot about it. I saw. I saw the. The mug shot of Jed York. This is what we're talking about. Knew it was going to happen and I actually thought it was Yu-Gi-Oh for a second. Probably was. So it's probably. Was probably didn't happen. I've saw some. I've seen some good Yu-Gi-Oh versions of it already. Well, I mean just. Just do a deep dive. Actually you don't need to really do a deep dive considering what he's being accused of those are those Yu-Gi-Oh videos. Nsfw not safe for work. I think they should probably sell and move the team. Yu-Gi-Oh Because that's where. That's one of your hopes. La. Canada. Canada. First team goes to Canada. Australia. They can just stay there. Just stand on. Just stand. Open up the season, play the Rams and then just stay there. Well, I mean, Cody is wearing a St. Louis Rams hat right now, so he's representing. No, this is. This is. This is St. Louis. one-of-one whatever. It's a baseball team. But one-of-one I mean, it looks like Rams colors. They should just move back to St. Louis. There you go. Yu-Gi-Oh there he goes. Because the L stand for loser. I lost a lot of games. It's still up. The. The. What's it called? What the hell's the name of it? The. Where they used to play in St. Louis. The. It's still up. Edward Genesis. Well, I think it was the Trans World Dome and then it went to the Edward Jones Dome. The Edward Jones Dome is still up. Yu-Gi-Oh That's what I mean. This was three years ago. Truck rallies there and Reggie Bush's favorite stadium. Hey, Reggie. Butch. Oh boy. one-of-one loves that scene. Said the better about that one. All right, well, what do we got in terms of. Looks like the Con can Apple NBA debut patch was pulled this weekend for Backyard by Backyard Breaks, three of the top rookies off the board now with Harper, Khan and Cooper. Do you think any of the prices of Update Chrome Basketball will be going down in the next coming days? I want to know who. Who's holding on to it. I mean there can't be feel like. Like a lot of it's been ripped. That's. I feel like it has. How much. How much is still out there in the wild? And I mean we were talking about this when this product first came out. Is that the debut patch checklist significantly smaller than the MLBs and definitely the NFLs. So maybe and Yu-Gi-Oh so. So maybe we actually are at a point where like most. Most of these are gone at this point now there are still. There's the argument to be made the SSPs, the Ultra Eagles are massive in these are still that out there. There's a lot of sps. And how are the Minions doing? The Minions are still doing well. They're not as well as they were still hot. They're not $15,000. But like you pull up, you pull an $8,000 minion card, you're still doing fine. Although I think someone also pulled the Superfractor Cooper flag Minion Minion that has been pulled. It's. A lot's been pulled. It's tricky. I mean, if you, if you ask, oh, he's gonna go up or down. Well, the problem is there's less supply too now. Right. So it's like it kind of corrects itself even though, like, oh, Yu-Gi-Oh all these million dollar cards maybe have already been pulled. Well, now there's 20% of the run left, so the ones that are holding on to it can just sit and wait it out. Right. So. And most of the breakers, I'm sure are probably getting through it, don't have much of it. That's why all these polls have came out. But product was a success. Basketball has a place for update Chrome as we can see. See if they can repeat that every year. You know, you're going to have AJ's first one and Darren Peterson's first debut patch in this next upcoming chrome update of 2027. So that should create some buzz. So we'll see. But flipping the script a little bit on Marvel Spider man cards are Zebra popular right now. Is that because of the new movie? So this is what I, I want to know because I feel like we talked about this. There was one week. There was one episode a few weeks ago we talked about, like, there was a Zootopia card that, like, quadrupled. It's what it sold for from like three or four years ago. And I was saying, well, there was the sequel. It was a really big hit. And it kind of felt like, well, maybe not in that case, because that was also a set where it was like the first Topps Chrome Disney set. This, though, there does feel like there's something about the fact that that movie came out and it was breaking records. I want to point out this card. Shout out to Alex, who is a huge. Probably our resident Marvel expert and collector here, and he's like, look at the Marvel market right now. That's kind of insane. So this is what's considered the very first Spider man card. I believe it also has Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four on it. This is a PSA9 that just broke records. $175,000 for this card on August 16th. But take a look at this. Just two years ago, this was a $3,000 card. Two years ago. Hell, one year ago, it was a $5,500 card. This is an unprecedented spike in closeup on that card. Because, you know, it's funny, I think we're talking about this. I'm getting these shows crossed up, but I think we're talking about this on Collect, which we do every Friday on the Fanatics Collect app hype on Collect. Let's talk about Yu-Gi-Oh appeal. And I remember Gary V was saying to buy these. So it's almost like if somebody has some kind of influence and they're like, oh, this is the original marble Marvel, then people go out and buy these. Honestly, sorry, I'm pissing people's waitings. Wheaties. The cards ugly. It's just like if I wanted to read a comic book, I would read a comic book. Like, I get it. It might be the first one that's out there. Whoop de whoops. I'd much rather have a nice Zebra Refractor or very low pop. Very low pop count though. Very low pop count. And I mean you also saw it alongside the 2024 top Marvel. That's the Miles Morales, which also, it's, it's, it's across the board, it's vintage, it's, it's modern, it's all insanely hot. But Yu-Gi-Oh if you were just to tell me without a price point, which card do you think looks better? Yu-Gi-Oh I think the 2024. Who even makes that? Who's the manufacturer of that said old piece of. I want to say that camp that came out straight from the comic books, if I'm not mistaken. I mean folks, if you're this or listening to this, please correct me in the comic book. I want to say. Yu-Gi-Oh it's just called Marvel superheroes 19. Oh, Donruss Excuse me. Okay, I, I, I take it back. 66 Donruss Marvel. And there are, it's a 66 card set. So Yu-Gi-Oh it's on the flip side, you have the. I think I showed that Miles Morales one, which also went from. I've got it up right here via card ladder in April of this year. April. That's a $3,000 card. 2:20. About a $3,000 card in August, just in fact, this Friday, last past Friday, $17,525 for the same exact card. What's going on? People like Spider Man. People really like Spider Man. Seems like they just like everything. I mean, like there's not a lot of categories that just aren't firing maybe besides nascar, but, but I don't know. Here we go. I want to know. We were ripping the, the new NASCAR product that came out there. It was on the website. Turn four. Turn four. It's a cool product. It's a great product. But I, but genuinely, I don't know. I mean one, the market for all pop culture other than maybe Star wars is insanely hot right now. You also have this Spider man movie that continues to break records and is a huge box office sensation. Spider Man's number one has always been the number one. I think among. It's the number one superhero property, I would say. But even with all that, it is hard to wrap your head. What about dc? How's dc? Batman. We haven't really had anything like we've been waiting on. If I'm. Did we ever get the Skybox DC set that was gonna have all the Batman PMGs, which I was very high on? I thought this is the. This is gonna be very underrated. I think people are sleeping on it. And if it hasn't come out yet, I still think people are really sleeping on that one. And maybe they're not anymore. Maybe people are seeing this and they're thinking and only a matter of time related. I. I saw that. You. I don't think we talked about it on Friday, but I saw you post something about Sonic. Is there. We were talking. We talked about it on an episode. We. We did. Yu-Gi-Oh we did podcasts. Yu-Gi-Oh we did it to sonic. We 100% talked about sonic. Huh? We talked about Sonic on this very podcast. Cool. Yu-Gi-Oh it happens. So memorable. What's happening with the Sonic market? We don't know yet. We don't know yet, but we're waiting. Is it Panini? It's Panini. Okay, sure, we talked about it. I think. You know what I think my next plan is? Is like I'm gonna figure out a category. Like actually, you know, I've already figured it out. We're just gonna do nascar, right? So I'm gonna go out, probably gonna spend this next six months. This is a playbook. This is the playbook. So I'm gonna spend about six months finding the lowest populate population cards, whether that be Prizm or National Treasures or even going back older, the press pass stuff. And then I'm gonna basically find like, I don't know, like a Tony Robbins or a Bill nye. I'm paying $500,000 to talk about how this market's underappreciated and that everybody should be buying these low pop NASCAR cards. And then guess what? I'm gonna be sitting with all of them. So I'm just gonna be like, this is what I'm gonna be doing. I'm just gonna be creating money. You think Bill Nye is gonna that type of buzz in the collectible market? People do love Bill. Pretty popular. I don't know if he's Got quite the pull of Gary Vee. So that's actually, we go back to that. So do you think this is less about the popularity of Spider man and more about the type of people, the market mover? I think we, I, I think we're basing it. I, we kind of saw this with, a long time ago with, with Gary Vee and Giannis Rookies and that stuff started going absolutely nuts. So I think, I don't, I don't know, I think it actually is more the popularity of Marvel itself. I think so too. I'm a little bit popularity of just the collectible market in general. People want to get in early so they see something that they feel is undervalued and they jump on it. And if everybody has that mentality, then it's obviously the market's going to completely change on and it's going to go up. I mean, did people get stimulus checks? I mean, what's going on? I mean, I haven't looked at the economy report. Are we doing pretty good? I mean, because it, it almost seems like in this hobby it's an awesome investment. You can't lose here. I mean, you can't lose. You pick a category and next thing you know it's like that one's now it's the most popular thing. One piece. Oh, that's popular. Oh, Mickey Mouse. That's popular. Oh, Spider Man. Old comic cuts. That's popular. I mean, I don't know what's next. Not like I said nascar. Like there's, there's, you just get enough people that are interested in something and they got to have all these cards that are just been lying in closets for years. I would say soccer probably isn't that popular right now. I think it's, I think it's kind of, I think it kind of. But it did have its moment. It did, right? I think it died off. Now it's a little, it's a little flat. A little bit. I mean you do have going to the Fanatics fest and going to the national. I saw a lot of display cases that had a lot of high end soccer cards. Yep. And I also was hearing that dealers were not buying soccer cards. Interesting. I think that was a huge buildup to the World Cup. But Yu-Gi-Oh I mean the only thing you can explain is that the Spider man movies, the success of the Marvel Chrome is maybe bringing more people into the hobby and they're looking backwards and well, what about this? I know there's 2026 Marvel Chrome, but what about the first Marvel Chrome Yu-Gi-Oh What about the 93? We have a box in the back, a sealed box of like the original Marvel. Is it flir. Yu-Gi-Oh like, that's not taking off as far as I could understand, but. Oh, I know. I thought it was worth like 4 million. No, it's like still worth the same amount, so. Sitting on. Yu-Gi-Oh sitting on a huge one. It's. And the thing is too. Yu-Gi-Oh All the. The PMGs that have been popular for years, you had the. The Muppets, NHL products. What's happened with that? I mean, why isn't that. Not everything's going up. There's like some things out there that are not going up. I'm sitting on Muppets on the ice still. Muppets on the ice for Sharks Cards. Come on, tough market. Sharks plus Fozzie Bear equals profit. What's happening, market? You know, it's funny. I was. I was on a side note before we talk a little Fernanda Mendoza and have this. This draft here that we're gonna do is. I was just watching this nostalgia video. They're like the coolest designs were in the 90s and they went over like you had the Charlotte Hornets. Everybody was wearing the Charlotte Hornets, the teal Right. Starter jackets. And then you had the Sharks. Right. And it was like people were wearing Sharks in like New York because it was just like the cool colors right in the 90s. And then you had the Marlins in 93 with that. With their starter, like old school design. And then he ended it with like the Rockies. And it was like all in that time period, about four years. All those teams came out and their merch hit like the children that weren't even fans of the team. I don't remember seeing people wear Rockies. I'll. I'll throw in. Maybe Rockies was the last one. Yu-Gi-Oh But the Marlins. 100%. I remember. I remember the Marlins, the Sharks. I definitely remember the Sharks. I think Mighty Charlotte was pretty popular too. Mighty Ducks. The original purple Mighty Duck. Yep. I liked that stuff as a. I mean, part of that was also the Disney movies and stuff, but I liked that stuff as a kid. Yep. Yu-Gi-Oh But there was also like the Raiders. That's. But that's been forever. Right. But you're. But it did. It did. To your point, it did reach a different level. Specifically, for sure. Yu-Gi-Oh West coast became like an identity. Yu-Gi-Oh That was. It became such a. So, so tied to their identity. Like the white socks of the same. Of the same era. Cuz. Ice Cube same. The black and white. Yu-Gi-Oh Well, it looks like there Was multiple whole Fernando Mendoza's pulled over this weekend. Flagship's been out. People are loving it. I actually got a. When I opened my jumbo box I got a Drew aller rookie auto to 99 which he could be the next guy. I mean he was third, third round pick to the Steelers. I know they have the other guy there from last year. They have Aaron Rodgers. Well, I mean he's probably not playing next year. He's not playing next year. Who's the other guy that got draw. Who's the rookie quarterback? Will Howard. So Yu-Gi-Oh they're kind of collecting these. Talk to Christian about Will Howard. Yu-Gi-Oh he likes him. He doesn't like Drew Aller for some reason. They're just collecting like Big Ten like, like the third or fourth best guy at each Big Ten draft of the last or. And they have Mason Rudolph and they have Rudolph still. And Drew Aller is from Penn State. So he's kind of, kind of like a hometown kid I guess. Right. But look, isn't this like maybe, maybe. You know what? I'm going to hold off this opinion until we do our draft because I was going to make it. You're picking Drew Allerd? Maybe. I don't know. Well, Doug's got one. Stay tuned. Well, and then in my same box I got that qb, the, the, the touchdown insert. Oh nice. And it was, I mean it was a scrub. It was Ty Simpson but it was a nice card. Rookie, rookie, rookie touchdown. It's like a 600 do like a $10,000 card. $600 going down by the minute. 610,000. What's the difference? I mean he, he has kind of lost his job to Stetson Bennett who. Yu-Gi-Oh probably the. Was I not saying sets and Bennett on, on probably the best backup quarterback in the league and probably going to get moved for like a second round pick because he's going to be starting somewhere. Second round. Yu-Gi-Oh Atlanta, Atlanta Falcons. They're knocking on the door. You just got to stop the Jaeger bombs and then he's fine if Atlanta gets him. That really proves the old. So he grew up, he grew up in Georgia. He, he went to Georgia. He went to Georgia. He one-of-one national titles in Georgia. I think he went to school there for like six years. Okay. But they have, they have two on Pennix and when you, and when you have three quarterbacks, you really have no quarterbacks. Yu-Gi-Oh So sorry to the fact. Do you think TUA is going to have a better year than Michael Panics? Could be a good. Well, they're, they're both left handed too right. So isn't that the irony of that? They're going to bring variety. You had to bring the right. Bennett, he's not left handed. No. Makes for good commentary though. I have to be a Falcon fan as a fellow lefty. All right, well let's get into this card draft. Can you imagine if they were like our system we could only have left handed quarterbacks. Well maybe that's what they were thinking. They're like maybe our receivers can't catch the left handed ball so we need to get a right hand. It look upsets Bennett. He's from Georgia. Maybe that was a theory. It might happen. Could happen. It might happen. All right, so how you gonna do random.org here? Yu-Gi-Oh so we're gonna go to random.org Yu-Gi-Oh we're doing a little N draft of the NFL season is basically upon us. We got week three of the preseason going on here. Just a quick rundown of the rules. We're basically going to just pick three players that by the end of the year we'll have some data on we'll see their whole season. And we're going to pick one rookie, one vet QB's and then one non QB and it could be a rookie or a vet and you don't have to go in any particular order. You can go with your wild card. We're calling it the wild card. You can go with that with pick one. You can go with that with your final pick. Whatever you want to do. I like it. Winners determined by car, letter, market value today versus the end of the regular season. All right, let's go to the on qb, rookie or veteran or a vet. Now these are San Jose Giants guys. It is. Yu-Gi-Oh Shout out to your California League north division champion San Jose Giants. They are currently in the building right now. So I think I see a few, the whole team, a few of them are going to be here. I just figured the guy's height is got to be somebody. It's. They've. It's become a popular spot, I'll tell you that. The guys have been spoke nothing but praises about this place. They were like this is this place rules. They're looking at you right now, Cody. Yu-Gi-Oh I know, I know. We're in there one-of-one All right, we're going to random.org I know that guy. We're going to, we're going to go here. I know it's like Yu-Gi-Oh you don't need hear my three times right? Three times enough. Yu-Gi-Oh we'll go three times. One One. One was fine. What were three? This is not rigged. This is not rigged by the producer, I swear to you. Is it snakes? I. It'll go snakes. It'll go snakes. I haven't prepared for this at all. That's fine. Sometimes that's better. Sometimes I feel like I draft better for fantasy football when I do. No. All right. All right. Well, also, you know, Yahoo has, like, a whole thing it can go off of. But one-of-one so based on card value. Card value, like what it. What it is right now and what it's going to be at the end of the year. Correct. And we're going to base it off of the market value that card ladder provides us right at the end of the year, right now versus the end of the year. Exactly. Okay. I have Beckett one. I gotta be honest. I was not prepared to go pick number one here. So it'll go myself, it'll go Doug, then I'll go Dan, and it'll go Snake until we all have three. I'm gonna say off the rip. You know what? I have talked such a big game about this guy. I've Hyper him up so much. Oh, now my heart split. His card value is high already. It is kind of. Do I think it can go any higher? And actually, I was even gonna maybe say Kyler, but, like, his stuff is high right now. So with that in mind, maybe I just go the obvious pick. You know what? I haven't. I Beckett him wrong. I'm going Fernando. I'm going Fernando Mendoza. It's obvious. I don't even know if I'm like, fully all in on him, but it feels like the obvious pick. It feels like the right pick. It feels like even if I think that collectors are going to give him a bit of a leash this year and he's not going to start right out the gate. It'll be Kirk Cousins team out the gate. So I think there's still a lot of room for him to. To grow and grow even. It's the classic. Like, does this first pick need to be a rookie quarterback? No. You can go anywhere. Anyone, Anybody. I almost went with the vet. Oh. So. Because I was like. But once you pick your rookie, you're going to end up with. No, not necessarily. So I'm going Fernando. It's the obvious pick. But Yu-Gi-Oh that's. That. That feels like the right pick. This is tough because, you know, I'm looking at the rookie QBs and the field's not very, you know, Beckett for this year. So, I mean, if I If I skip this pick right now and I don't go rookie qb, then I have the potential of getting somebody I don't want like a cade club Nick from the Jets. I don't know if that's going to work out for me. So as much as it pains me to say, I think there was a reason why I pulled this guy's touchdown insert because I think his price is going to be protected this year because he's not going to play. And I think we're going to be, we're going to have the JJ McCarthy effect with Mr. Ty Simpson my first pick. I think you're right. I think the guys who play last year future Zebra bowl champion and MVP of the league. I hope not. I just think he's not going to play this year. You guys are going to be like 9 and 7, probably get eliminated and then 9 and 7 the next year. He's going to get the start and he's not going to play nine and seven. Okay, first off that's good. Yu-Gi-Oh First a winning season. I mean I don't know how you didn't go Stetson Bennett there rookie quarterback qualify has to be a rookie but he could have, it could have been your, your break. I, I, I'm gonna go with the guy that I thought the Rams are gonna draft and it doesn't have to be a quarterback. Right. Just has to be a rookie. Well that could be your wild card pick. So you do have to pick at least one rookie qb. You have to pick at least one vet QB and at least one non qb. Very very confusing rules. I think I laid out the rules pretty good. They're no, they're very confusing. I don't know where to go now. Could do any of them. I mean look, if you want to make your wild card a non rookie QB by all you gotta, you gotta do a vet QB one-of-one A vet qb? Yu-Gi-Oh You could take the best vet QB if you want anything. Well you got two pick. You got two picks. I think he's gonna get, I think he's gonna get traded. I, I, I'm serious about. Stetson Bennett is going to get traded and he's probably going to start this year. You taking them? I'm taking Stetson Bennett. Okay. And that's your wild card? That's my wild. Okay, well or it's a, so it's got to be your vet QB pick. It's my vet. Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh that qb. It's my vet. Seeing these rules, very confusing. But Stetson Bennett his, his Prices are. So what gives him some flexibility. He could go with a vet non QB at this point and considered as so low with Stetson Bennett and if he ends up starting somewhere his prices are going to go dramatically up. I'm not mad at that because you're right because it's, it doesn't, you know, and, and it's gonna actually help out Doug's situation because that will make Ty Simpson more valuable the number two. And I get nothing out of this. So that's fine. And, and who'd you pick again? I forbid for Hernando. I wanted the obvious pick but you get another pick so you can go with a rookie QB or a rookie qb. Carson Beck. Okay, interesting. Not very, very good. Well, very good. And this was. Look, you guys are probably like Yu-Gi-Oh I didn't even think I thought about him. But no, no, he's right here as 1, 2, 3. I got, I'm the one person here, no computer in front of them. Just off the dumb. I like I, I, I'm not mad at that pick because he also. I think they're going to be a terrible team but I think that actually gets him on the field. Exactly. I think of all the guys we mentioned, Fernando's gonna wait a bit. Ty Simpson's probably not starting at all and if he is, it means something terribly wrong has gone has happened. Carson Beck has a decent shot of, of, of starting this year, which probably helps him in the short term. Yu-Gi-Oh but I wasn't back, you know, if I didn't pick Fernando, I was actually going to think Drew Alar specifically because he's doing the classic sitting behind Aaron Rodgers for a year, probably isn't starting at all. There might be a few other guys a little higher than him and I think that, that the sort of the J.J. mcCarthy sort of of this year of like his market will improve next year. All I heard is that you're picking J.J. mcCarthy. Oh, I'm not picking, that's all I heard. I'm not picking JJ McCarthy. For the love of God, lock it in. No. So that's your two picks. So you got. Yu-Gi-Oh no wait. You did Stetson Bennett. I did Stetson Bennett and, and, and Carson Beck. That's right. So it's back to me. Non qb, rookie or vet. Or a vet qp. Yu-Gi-Oh there's a, there's a lot to think about here because I can go with the vet here. There's a couple options. There's like a guy that's, you know, that's got a new coach by the name of John Harbaugh. There's that guy I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about maybe leaning towards him. There's also a guy that might have Brandon Iuk on his team. I'm thinking about him. I'm just going through. Through my process here. It's a tough one. I mean, what would you guys pick? Or what are you gonna pick next? What am I gonna pick next? I can't tell. You gotta hold on to that. Oh, I'm starting to regret the Fernando pick, by the way. Like, how much higher is he gonna go? How much higher are his cards gonna sell? No takebacks. Because I'm like. No, you're right. Because I'm like looking right now. He's got like $11,000 for his 1 of 1 or his number to 10. But if he doesn't, the probably the best case scenario for you is if he doesn't Blue Ice And there's just the what if factor and the. And the Raiders end up being a decent team. Right. With the future that Fernando takes over on a team that has a lot of pieces. Right. Even though I think. I think. I think Genti got hurt. He did get hurt. All right. I think I'm locking in my pick here. So I'm going with a guy that's got the. If you look at his card ladder chart, it is at negative 58 right now. So there's a lot of room for improvement for Mr. Joe Burrow. So I'm going with Joe Burrow because I think people have slept on him because he hasn't, you know, made some playoffs and we one-of-one an MVP two years ago. So I mean, I think he's not far removed from that. I know he has some injuries. Joe Burrow, I like that pick. I like that pick a lot. Yu-Gi-Oh he's just. Yu-Gi-Oh just needs to one-of-one He puts up stats when he's on the field. I think hopefully the Cincinnati defense got a little bit better. They didn't. I don't think. I don't think they did anything. They did. They should have. They should have traded for Dion Jones then. I mean, we just stacking linebackers. All right. All right. I didn't know you guys had the running back. The former running back from the Raiders, Zamir White. Yu-Gi-Oh I didn't. Didn't know that guy was on the team. Yu-Gi-Oh Embarrassment of riches we have, you know. All right, that means I've got two picks here. I gotta go vet QB and then my wild card pick. Wild card. I am gonna go rookie and I'm gonna go again. I guess I'm going very obvious. But I do going with a Cardinal. I'm going Jeremiah Love. I think he's got the potential. He's the. He's the offensive rookie of the year favorite. I think he's got the best chance to put up big numbers and I think short term, that's a guy that I think a lot of fans are going to be. We see it a lot like the rookie. Rookie running backs who have. Who pop off real early on. I feel like if you're playing the flip game, that's the guys to go with. So I'm going Jeremiah Love for that reason and then vet QB again. My heart is torn and Yu-Gi-Oh you know, I'm sorry, Dan. I'm not. I'm using. I'm using the computer. You already know whose name I'm probably looking up right now. I need any excuse. He's up right now. Of course he's up right now. Because everybody has the same idea. Oh, Kyler. Not Kyler. I feel like I'm going so obvious. If I go. You know what? I'm not going to go obvious. I'm going to say Jaden Daniels. I'm going to go Jaden Daniels. Because I think we very, very. I mean the catastrophic injury last year and I think he's still got a ton of. A ton of potential and a ton of talent. We saw how exciting it was they were in the NFC championship game in year one for a team that had no expectations and so much of that was riding on his shoulders. So there's no way that that guy's just gone. I know it was a really bad injury, but I still like Jayden Daniels and I think he can have a lot of growth this year. And in an NFC east that I don't think is totally. I mean, the Eagles are probably the class of that division, but I think that the rest of the division's up for grabs. So going Jane, and I'm assuming it's my. My pick back to me. Did I. Did I not. I just. No, you. Because you had the two picks in a row and then I had a pick. No way. Wouldn't it be because you were first. I feel like I've been. Oh, you're right, you're right. Like I've been skipped over, but it's fine. No, you're right, you're right. No, no, it's fine. Not a snake works because I'm done. I'm done now. I got my three. Doesn't matter. I I've already locked this up. I could essentially go with another quarterback. Right. I have a, I have a veteran quarterback and a rookie quarterback. So you, you're done with QBs, you got to go with a wild card. Non rookie, non qb rookie or vet. Okay. So it could be a, could be anybody like a veteran wide receiver then could be a defensive tackle. If you really wanted it to be. If you really wanted to play that game, that might be the smart play. Honestly, if you're just looking at growth, man, it's. There's, there's a lot of options that are going through my head. Like part of me wants to go with like a malik neighbors because you know he's gonna be back. He's in Harbaughs, you know, offense. He's gonna be back. He's still got the queue. So I don't know when he's coming back. So that's probably why I'm not gonna pick him. You know who I'm gonna go with. This is kind of a wild card pick in a sense. It's a little bit down the list. But I do believe in Caleb and I think he's gonna have a new number one this year. I think it's going to be Luther Burden Yu-Gi-Oh So I'm going Luther Burden. Oh, that's a. That's a good dark horse candidate. I like it. Seems like he hasn't found quite his guy. People thought Rome was his guy. DJ Moore clearly not his guy for some reason even though he was the guy in Carolina not on the team anymore and he's not. Well, there you go. So there you go. Not on the team anymore. So I like that. Luther. Luther Burden is my pick. Tons of tons of potential for growth. The thing that I love about this is that Doug and I have been in the same fantasy league for a long time and I have a pretty good idea who he is going to reach now at a wide receiver. So that is good intel. The top. I liked that. Well, you know I'm not going to draft Ty Simpson though. I. Yu-Gi-Oh but I know that Luther Burden is high on your radar. So when it hits like the third or fourth round and Luther Burden still there and I have a pick. Yu-Gi-Oh I got some leverage there. And look, Luther Burton Yu-Gi-Oh has things like has the. The. The Mangas and he's got a lot of big rookie car. His pad pot. I could never say it right. Pad pod parasha. Thank you. Biggest selling card from Top Zebra $6,500 for his one of one. There you go. So There you go there. So I think that's a lot of room for growth. A lot of room for growth. Caleb slings the ball. Yu-Gi-Oh We're close to making it into the. The NFC championship game. There. There was a couple plays away. None of us Beckett Caleb, by the way. I was thinking about it. I was thinking about it. Yu-Gi-Oh All right. So Yu-Gi-Oh in. See. See who does the best here. I've only Beckett I've only Beckett two. I know, I know. I get two picks. Well, Dan's got one more now with these really straightforward and easy rules that you set out. Non qb. Who do I need to pick now? What do I need to pick? Any non qb. Any non QB or vet. Doesn't matter. Or that doesn't matter. Any non qb. A non QB could be a kicker. You know, he's probably going to have a monster year. A.J. brown. Oh, on the Patriots. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Revenge season. Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, as long as Drake may, can, you know, turn back into a human and not a pumpkin like he did in the Zebra bowl. And I think he'll be fine that they didn't have like a legit number one receiver last year. No. And now they. Now they do, man. But I don't. I don't. I don't love A.J. brown, but I do. I do believe, like, his market has to be pretty. She didn't go with, like Puka. No contract year. It's going to be weird. It's going to be weird. You can get a PSA 10 Prizm rookies. AJ Brown, a silver Prizm rookie for 95 bucks. Okay. AJ Brown it is. Yu-Gi-Oh I think it's a good call. I like it. The thing that you have. The other. The other one was so. And I'm gonna. Since you basically shared the Luther burden and I know he's gonna be high on your radar. Terrence Ferguson is gonna be, I think the Rams. Who. Slot receiver who was a. He's a tight end. Never heard of him. Yu-Gi-Oh never heard of. You Will. He's probably gonna go for. Did he go to tight end? You. Did he go to the Titan? You. He doesn't. Probably not. He doesn't get the invite. He doesn't need the invite. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Gotta say, right after the trade, this was a 250 card, which I'm sure. Very weird isolated sales, but still. No. We're going by 90. 95. 95, you're right. That's the most recent sale. Yep. So that's what we're going off of. So A.J. brown, I. I fear the Zebra Bowl Hangover, though. Now he's a. He didn't go to the Zebra Bowl. That. You're right. Not many teams with Zebra bowl hangovers get a guy of A.J. brown's caliber the very next year. Well, maybe you if few, but. Yu-Gi-Oh I don't know. I mean, there's also A.J. brown's former team with a guy by the name of Makai Lemon. Is he gonna work out? He was up there. I. Who's gonna be number. Devonte Smith or Makai Lemon? It's gonna start with. With Devonte. It's gonna be Devante, but Devonte hasn't really shown it. He's a number one wide receiver and Mai's kind of. He's 5 11, so you're losing the size of a. A lot. Mai Lemon is gonna be. I could see Mai Lemon becoming the number one option midway through the season. I. I'm. If he stays on the field. Exactly. Because he. He seems to be kind of banged up already in training camp. Yu-Gi-Oh I. I'm pretty high on him. I didn't even realize that for a while that me and Dan did a podcast with him when he was like a freshman at. With Matt Leinert and. That's right. And Lindell White, and he sat on the couch and we talked to him and it was always like, like, man, this kid's in college and he has like, you know, a gold chain and, you know, he's. He's got the whole outfit. He's all set. You know, he's looking like he was a pro then, so he already had that mindset. Obviously, Nil money helps too. But he, you know, he was. He was. He's already kind of gave off that. Those vibes of being an NFL pro back then. This is 2024 draft, so two over two years ago, so we'll see what he does. I like to pick. I like the. Well, I like it. No one Beckett Makai Lemon, but no, I thought about it. If I had another pick, I thought of, Yu-Gi-Oh he was definitely on my radar, but I went with the guy who used to be on that team. Right. Right. So when it's all said and done, it's. Doug went with Joe Burrow, Ty Simpson, Luther Burton Yu-Gi-Oh Dan went Stetson Bennett, Steady B, Carson Beck. And then your non. QB was AJ Brown. AJ Brown. And then I went. I feel like I went the most chalk. I went with Fernando Mendoza, Jeremiah Love, and then Jaden Daniels. I'm in pretty chalk on my rookie qb though, as far as rankings. Yes. Right now he's number two. But I just believe that he's gonna be. He's J.J. mcCarthy all over again come, you know, 2024 season when Sam Darnold started for the Vikings and J.J. mcCarthy was just like, what could this guy be? And obviously we figured out what he was after that. But you have that whole year of figuring out what he is. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh So I mean he's gonna probably suck too. Ty Simpson, let's face it. But like at least I have the year to wait and he's not gonna. He's just gonna be like, just in case he's gonna be in a. In a glass case and they're not gonna have to break it. I mean unless, you know, the senior citizen Matt Stafford gets hurt again. So. Yu-Gi-Oh they team looks real good. Real good. Everything. Everything. I mean even. Even our kicker now he's figured it out. Are we going to have like the thicker kicker. Are we gonna have a watch party Thursday the 10th? Are we gonna do it? Are we gonna bring ourselves to that here? I mean, Yu-Gi-Oh like you're gonna have tears, but I mean it's probably harder for you because there's a lot more Niner fans around here than you know, than going to your home where there's not as many diner fans at your home. Yu-Gi-Oh Could be kind of just be the same thing, right? Yu-Gi-Oh What's the difference? What's the difference? I know Thursday night you should have like at least maybe we should get a watch party here somewhere. I don't know. You know, I feel like. I gotta say. Dan's pick of sets embedded I think might have been low key. The best of the vet QBs, I think it was only. Only if he gets moved. That's the thing is it is kind of contingent on that. Like if he's stuck with the Rams all year, nothing happens. But I could see him. There's a lot of things at play here. He's on his. The end his last year of his rookie contract. Rams probably are not going to resign him. They could move him for a realistically probably a fifth round pick. And then you put Ty Simpson as the. As the backup backup. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh I see it. Might see it. I tried really hard to justify picking Justin Herbert, by the way, but guess what? His market ship sailed, man. Yu-Gi-Oh but his market's also up compared to it was a few months ago. Stetson Bennett PSA10 Rookie Right. Is probably a 18 card actually. It's probably a low pop versus not a lot of people probably grading Stetson Bennett rookies right now he's definitely forgot about it. Doesn't take much. I mean you could. You might want to like after that trade, we check it then and you're like I one-of-one because like probably by the end of the season. Oh, I'm not going to. But it one-of-one matter once the trade happens. It's probably going to be. Look good. Right? Be like a really good choice. Exactly. Yu-Gi-Oh Silver. Silver Prizm Where are we at with PSA? Yu-Gi-Oh Sil. PSA 10 Silver Prizm Ricky of Justin Herbert. Still a cool $1449. Yu-Gi-Oh Don't know if that's worth Atomic McDaniel, baby. He's gonna figure it out. I'm telling you. It's gonna happen at some point. I think those prices just kind of stay like that because what the amount of money that people put into Justin, it is quite literally a money. They're just like I'm not, I'm not going to. Not going to lose. It's basically a strai. Yu-Gi-Oh he was the thing. I mean Harbaugh was really upset that his kicker missed a field goal on Friday. I'd never seen him so animated in a preseason game. He was, he was all kinds of frustrated. Lose by 30. Yu-Gi-Oh we. Yu-Gi-Oh we kicked their butts. That was a four thousand dollar card. A six thousand two hundred dollar card in 2021. By the way, Trey Lance is man, I don't know. Yu-Gi-Oh you could have. Somebody could have Beckett Trey Lance. I mean Herbert. Herbert goes down. I don't even know after watching that. I don't know. Is Brissette their third? They have like a. No, Brissette's the Arizona. Who's the. Who's the guy that came in third? He looked better. Easton stick. No Easton stick. Chargers QB depth. I'm still very high on him and everybody is though the fact DJ Yuga Lele. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh I think he might be a better choice than who then thence. Yu-Gi-Oh Well we're all excited for football as you can tell. Check out mojo break.com for your upcoming releases. Topps flagship is breaking now as we speak. If you're into basketball, we got chrome black. And just to remind you guys of the code use code Chrome Basketball 10 for 10% off your basketball break@mojo break.com and we'll see you next week on the Hype. Peace.
Episode summary
With the first 2026 Topps NFL release behind us and the regular season just weeks away, the guys draft the football cards they think will have the biggest come up this season on the latest episode of The Hype!
Doug, Dan and Cody talk about the upcoming Pokemon World Championship in San Francisco, try to figure out why the Marvel card market is as hot as it's ever been and discuss the future of Chrome Update Basketball now that the Kon Knueppel Debut Patch has been pulled.
Then the guys draft the rookie QB's, veteran gunslingers and non-QB's they think will see the biggest jump in their card values in our 2026 NFL Card Draft! Hear why Doug thinks Joe Burrow is ready for an MVP caliber year, why Dan thinks a trade could lead to a huge boom in this backup QB's market and why Cody thinks collectors shouldn't sleep on Jayden Daniels heading into the new season.
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