Fan Signal Desk
Daily brief on cards and kits.
Edition 38 Sunday, August 23, 2026
Mover of the Day

All Kings is where Flagship Football's money went

Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes All Kings inserts each sold for $5,000 on eBay a day after Topps' first NFL flagship set since 2015 went on sale.

Topps' first NFL flagship set since 2015 went on sale August 21, and the All Kings insert is where the money went first. Jeremy (@footballcardfun) posted a running eBay scoreboard the next day: Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes at $5,000 each, Caleb Williams and Jahmyr Gibbs at $2,000, another Gibbs at $1,500, Trevor Lawrence at $1,100, Ty Simpson at $1,000 and Bo Nix at $700. Sports Card Investor posted the same $5,000 Mahomes sale independently the same day. It is the card-level follow-through to the box-level heat we covered yesterday, when jumbo hobby boxes were listing well above MSRP.

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Topps Flagship FootballAll KingsPatrick MahomesJosh Allen
Source: Jeremy (X) · Published August 22, 2026

Drop Radar

Launch date of August 27 reported by Footy Headlines on August 23; no club confirmation posted yet.

Footy Headlines reports Manchester City's Puma 26-27 third kit launches August 27

Footy Headlines has City's third shirt for next season down for an official launch on Thursday, August 27. Puma makes it, and the club has not posted its own reveal yet, so treat the date as reported rather than club-confirmed until City's channels say so. If you buy City shirts on launch day, that is four days out.

Footy Headlines' report
Manchester CityPuma
Source: Footy Headlines · Published August 23, 2026
On sale from August 22 through the club's retail channels, per Footy Headlines.

Aston Villa's black and gold Puma 26-27 away kit went on sale August 22

Villa's new away shirt is out now through the club's own retail channels. Puma went black with gold accents, a stripped-back lion crest and a tricolor collar and cuffs, with design details nodding to the club's Founding Lamp. It is the kind of one-off palette that tends to sell through before the season is old.

Footy Headlines' report
Aston VillaPuma
Source: Footy Headlines · Published August 22, 2026
Reported by Footy Headlines on August 22 from official product imagery and early retail sightings; official release expected late August 2026.

Footy Headlines: AS Roma's adidas 26-27 third kit is already on sale at some retailers ahead of the club reveal

Official product images of Roma's third shirt have leaked and Footy Headlines reports it has been spotted on early sale at some retailers, ahead of the club's own release, which the site expects late this month. It is a black shirt with an embossed foliage pattern, a yellow adidas logo and crest, and tricolor cuffs. Roma has not posted its own reveal, so this runs as a reported leak.

Footy Headlines' report
AS RomaAdidas
Source: Footy Headlines · Published August 22, 2026
Release date of September 9 confirmed on Topps' own product page, with preorders live since August 10; corroborated by Beckett and Checklist Insider.

Topps confirms 2026 Bowman Chrome Baseball for September 9 with two autographs per hobby box

The prospect-chase Chrome release is locked for September 9 on Topps' own store, with preorders open since August 10. Hobby boxes run six packs of ten cards with two autographs, against a 100-card base set and a separate 100-card Chrome Prospects checklist. Bowman GPK, Bowman Spotlights and Crystallized all return; new this year are WBC Flag Variation and Across the Seams, plus a Bowman Red Rookie Redemption tied to Rookie of the Year honors.

The Topps product page
ToppsBowman Chrome
Source: Topps · Published August 21, 2026

Under the Radar

Among the top-scoring posts in r/SoccerJerseys' top-of-day feed on August 23 (RSS fallback in use, exact score unavailable).

r/SoccerJerseys surfaces a deadstock 2014-15 Barcelona away shirt with a Neymar Jr. name set

A collector posted a local find: the 2014-15 Barcelona away kit, unworn and unwashed, with a Neymar Jr. name set and Champions League patches already on it. The poster says the only flaw is a small mark on the name set. Deadstock era shirts turn up often enough, but deadstock with the period name set and patches intact is the version people actually hunt for.

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BarcelonaNeymar Jr.
Source: r/SoccerJerseys · Published August 23, 2026

Live Heat

Bidding on a Piedmont-backed T206 Honus Wagner topped $5.8 million at Heritage, above this year's $5.1 million PSA 1, per Will Stern

$5,800,000
BID · AUCTION OPEN
checked August 22, 2026
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Honus WagnerT206Heritage AuctionsSGC
Source: Will Stern (X)

Bidding tops $34,000 at Heritage for the copyright to Michael Proebsting's Jordan "Last Shot" photo, per Darren Rovell

$34,000
BID · AUCTION OPEN
checked August 22, 2026
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Michael JordanHeritage Auctions
Source: Darren Rovell (X)

From the Feed

Posted August 22 by @CardsBoulevard on X.

Best Cards Ever posts a $23,180 sale for a 2004-05 Topps Chrome Jason Williams SuperFractor 1/1

WHITE CHOCOLATE TOP PUBLIC SALE 👀 The 2004-05 Topps Chrome SuperFractor Jason Williams 1/1 PSA 9 sold for $23,180 making it the top public Jason Williams sale of all time.

The account calls the PSA 9 SuperFractor (cert 171847311) the top public Jason Williams sale on record. White Chocolate has always had a following well out of proportion to his box score, and the 1/1 is the ceiling copy of it.

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Jason WilliamsTopps Chrome
Source: Best Cards Ever (X) · Published August 22, 2026
Posted August 22 by @BleacherReport on X.

Bleacher Report tallies the NBA offseason, from LeBron James to Philadelphia to Russell Westbrook retiring

What a summer 😱 — LeBron & JB to PHI — Giannis & Klay to MIA — Melo to Wolves — DDR to Denver — Kawhi to TOR (?) — PG to BOS — Ja to POR — Lakers reload — Randle to BKN — Russ retires

Ten moves in one post, including LeBron and JB to Philadelphia, Giannis and Klay to Miami, and a reported Kawhi move to Toronto. For anyone who buys shirts, that is a lot of names about to change on a lot of backs.

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LeBron JamesKawhi Leonard
Source: Bleacher Report (X) · Published August 22, 2026
Posted August 22 by @1920bears on X.

1920 Bears posts NBA Finals win percentages with Jordan at 68.6% and LeBron at 40.0%

Michael Jordan’s Finals Win% doesn’t seem real. 🐑 1. Jordan 68.6% 2. Kobe 62.2% 3. Steph 61.8% 4. LeBron 40.0% When the lights get brightest… some players just show up different. Who has the strongest NBA Finals résumé? 👀

Jordan 68.6, Kobe 62.2, Steph 61.8, LeBron 40.0, presented as a GOAT-debate prompt and doing exactly what it was built to do. The comments are the point.

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Michael JordanLeBron James
Source: 1920 Bears (X) · Published August 22, 2026

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