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Is A.J. Brown for Brandon Aiyuk fair?

A.J. Brown and Brandon Aiyuk have been on opposite sides of 52 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.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 15 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 15 of those 15 times it was the Brandon Aiyuk side (0 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating A.J. Brown as the more valuable of the two.

52
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
0 / 15
One side sweetened: A.J. Brown / Brandon Aiyuk

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 A.J. Brown prices at 5,932 and Brandon Aiyuk at 229, so the market currently rates A.J. Brown about 25.9x 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 2026-09-04.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with A.J. BrownWent with Brandon Aiyuk
2026-08-20-52%D'Andre Swift, Jalen Hurts, Patrick Mahomes, 12 more, 1 2nd, 1 3rdMatthew Stafford, Isaac TeSlaa, Davante Adams, 14 more, 1 3rd
2026-03-24+81%Romeo Doubs, Sean Tucker
2025-12-09+2%Brenton Strange, 1 3rd, 1 later pickWill Howard, 1 1st, 1 3rd
2025-11-25+69%1 2nd, 1 3rd
2025-11-13+35%DK Metcalf, Josh Jacobs, Breece Hall3 1sts, 1 2nd
2025-10-21+59%James Conner, Tank Dell, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2025-09-13+8%Christian McCaffrey, Jonathan Taylor, 1 1stKaleb Johnson, Amon-Ra St. Brown, James Cook
2025-05-20+12%1 1st
2025-05-12-3%Tyreek Hill, 2 2nds
2024-11-21-33%David MontgomeryJaylen Waddle, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rd

Read each row as: A.J. Brown, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Brandon Aiyuk 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 A.J. Brown; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 52, the whole-deal value gap runs +18.6% from the side that received A.J. Brown, so the side ending up with A.J. Brown 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 A.J. Brown for Brandon Aiyuk 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 52 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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