Aaron Jones and Austin Ekeler have been on opposite sides of 21 real dynasty trades.
Not simulations and not a calculator lining up two numbers. Every one of them is a completed trade from a public Sleeper league, graded at the player values that were current on the day it happened.
None of them were a straight one-for-one. Every time these two crossed, something else was attached to close it.
In 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 2 between the Aaron Jones side and the Austin Ekeler side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.
Everything above is priced on the day each deal happened, which is the only honest way to grade a completed trade. It is not what they cost now. Today Aaron Jones prices at 123 and Austin Ekeler at 3, so the market currently rates Aaron Jones about 41.0x the other. A pair can lean one way across its history and price the opposite way now; that gap is the whole reason to check the deal in front of you rather than the deal someone made in 2023.
Values as of 2026-07-24.
| Date | Margin | Went with Aaron Jones | Went with Austin Ekeler |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-11 | +64% | 1 later pick | 1 2nd |
| 2025-09-01 | -9% | — | Jauan Jennings |
| 2024-11-09 | +61% | — | Gardner Minshew, Keaton Mitchell |
| 2023-11-21 | -12% | Tyler Lockett, 1 1st | Tre Tucker, 1 2nd |
| 2023-08-24 | -38% | David Njoku, Isaiah Likely, Desmond Ridder, 1 more, 1 1st, 1 3rd | Dalton Kincaid, Keenan Allen, Mike Gesicki, 6 more |
| 2022-09-08 | -8% | Davante Adams, Sam Howell | Elijah Moore |
| 2022-09-03 | -50% | DeAndre Hopkins, 1 3rd | Kenyan Drake, Gus Edwards, 2 later picks |
| 2022-08-29 | -56% | DeAndre Hopkins | 1 3rd, 2 later picks |
| 2022-08-16 | -41% | Amon-Ra St. Brown | — |
| 2022-08-01 | +13% | Travis Kelce, Joe Burrow, Tyler Allgeier, 1 1st | DeAndre Hopkins, Mitchell Trubisky, Christian Kirk, 2 more |
Read each row as: Aaron Jones, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Austin Ekeler plus anything in the fourth. An em dash means that side sent nobody else. Margin is the value gap at that day’s prices from the side that received Aaron Jones; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs -9.2% from the side that received Aaron Jones, so the side ending up with Austin Ekeler has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.
A calculator answers “is Aaron Jones for Austin Ekeler fair” by subtracting one number from another, and it gives every manager in your league the same answer. That tells you nothing about whether the trade closes. What closes it is whether one side has to attach a piece, and which side that usually is. The 21 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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