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Is Aaron Jones for Saquon Barkley fair?

Aaron Jones and Saquon Barkley have been on opposite sides of 29 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. 1 of them were straight up: Aaron Jones for Saquon Barkley, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 7 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 6 of those 7 times it was the Aaron Jones side (1 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Saquon Barkley as the more valuable of the two.

29
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
6 / 1
One side sweetened: Aaron Jones / Saquon Barkley

What they cost today

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 Saquon Barkley at 3,304, so the market currently rates Saquon Barkley about 26.9x 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.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Aaron JonesWent with Saquon Barkley
2026-07-22+25%Bhayshul Tuten, Kenneth Walker, 1 2ndBlake Corum, Kirk Cousins, Derrick Henry, 1 2nd
2025-11-26-52%1 1st
2025-11-12+47%Tetairoa McMillan, 1 1stAlec Pierce
2025-10-16+3%Oronde Gadsden, Tyler Warren, Garrett Wilson, 1 moreCarson Wentz, Christian McCaffrey, Mark Andrews, 1 more
2025-10-01-28%RJ Harvey, 1 1st, 1 3rdJaylen Wright
2025-05-15+45%Ladd McConkey, Brock Purdy, 1 2ndCourtland Sutton, 1 2nd
2025-04-29-70%Joe Milton, 1 1st
2024-04-30-13%Garrett Wilson, 3 2ndsDalton Kincaid, Jordan Addison, Jacksonville Jaguars, 1 3rd
2024-03-12-25%Christian Watson, 1 3rdRashod Bateman
2023-12-05-5%Tyler Lockett, George Kittle, Nick Chubb, 3 moreEvan Engram, Tee Higgins, Treylon Burks, 1 2nd

Read each row as: Aaron Jones, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Saquon Barkley 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.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 29, the whole-deal value gap runs -19.2% from the side that received Aaron Jones, so the side ending up with Saquon Barkley has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is Aaron Jones for Saquon Barkley 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 29 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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