Aaron Jones and Ezekiel Elliott have been on opposite sides of 22 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.
Most of those were larger deals with other pieces attached. 2 of them were straight up: Aaron Jones for Ezekiel Elliott, nothing else changing hands.
In 2 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 1 to 1 between the Aaron Jones side and the Ezekiel Elliott side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.
| Date | Margin | Went with Aaron Jones | Went with Ezekiel Elliott |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-29 | +168% | Luke McCaffrey | Greg Dortch |
| 2024-05-07 | -18% | Kyler Murray, Jerome Ford | Tyler Lockett, Joe Burrow |
| 2023-01-13 | +64% | Marquise Brown, Jack Sanborn | James Cook, 1 2nd |
| 2022-09-10 | +12% | Justin Jefferson, Cole Kmet | Robert Tonyan, A.J. Brown, Jerry Jeudy |
| 2022-07-08 | -42% | Tyler Allgeier, Chris Olave | Saquon Barkley, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, 1 3rd |
| 2022-06-02 | +28% | — | — |
| 2022-02-18 | +24% | — | — |
| 2022-02-10 | +4% | Kyler Murray | Mac Jones, Justin Fields, 1 1st |
| 2021-11-21 | +57% | J.K. Dobbins, 1 2nd | Bryan Edwards |
| 2021-10-12 | +10% | Cooper Kupp, Sam Darnold, Damien Harris | Allen Robinson, Mike Davis, Jalen Hurts |
Read each row as: Aaron Jones, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Ezekiel Elliott 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 22, the whole-deal value gap runs +14.9% from the side that received Aaron Jones, so the side ending up with Aaron Jones 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 Ezekiel Elliott 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 22 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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