2026 Leaf Sports Heroes: Manning, McGregor and a Low-Numbered Autograph Checklist

Peyton Manning's gold geometric frame and Conor McGregor's horizontal autograph card introduce two noticeably different designs within 2026 Leaf Sports Heroes. Manning's portrait sits above a pale signing panel. McGregor's card spreads its photograph and ink across a wider composition with mechanical-looking details around the edges.

Leaf's January 2026 release builds its main checklist around cards numbered to nine or fewer, with a separate Pearl 15th Anniversary autograph group numbered to fifteen. The anniversary cards therefore have their own stated numbering.

Surface and outline help define the subsets

Loud and Clear uses PETG, adding a distinct material to the release. Toast of the Town is a die-cut insert centered on legends associated with their cities. Those are concrete differences in construction and subject, beyond a change in foil color.

The official checklist places Allen Iverson and Anna Leigh Waters among the Loud and Clear signers. The PETG cards give those signatures a different presentation from the Metal designs shown in the Manning and McGregor previews.

Signatures range from one athlete to eight

Sports Heroes includes dual-signed through eight-player signed combinations. That gives the release a multi-autograph direction alongside its individual-player cards. The number and relationship of the signers become part of the appeal of each combination.

The Pearl checklist separately identifies Leaf 15th Anniversary Edition 1990 autographs, with subjects including Barry Sanders, Cameron Brink, Charles Barkley, Conor McGregor, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lionel Messi, each listed in Red Spectrum /15. That anniversary treatment is a defined subset within the wider Sports Heroes release.