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Is A.J. Brown for Puka Nacua fair?

A.J. Brown and Puka Nacua have been on opposite sides of 24 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: A.J. Brown for Puka Nacua, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 9 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 9 times it was the A.J. Brown side (4 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Puka Nacua as the more valuable of the two.

24
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
5 / 4
One side sweetened: A.J. Brown / Puka Nacua

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 5,646 and Puka Nacua at 9,098, so the market currently rates Puka Nacua about 1.6x 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 A.J. BrownWent with Puka Nacua
2026-07-14-46%2 2nds
2026-06-02-13%Jordyn Tyson, Travis Kelce, D'Andre Swift, 1 moreEvan Engram, Breece Hall, 1 3rd
2025-12-08-15%Davante Adams, Jauan JenningsEmanuel Wilson, Riley Leonard
2025-11-28-0%Deebo Samuel, Jonathan Taylor, Kenny GainwellCam Skattebo, Luther Burden, 1 later pick
2025-11-23+2%Jayden Reed, 1 1st
2025-10-21+2%Shedeur Sanders, Tyreek Hill, Rico Dowdle, 1 more, 1 1stJaxson Dart, Alvin Kamara
2025-10-08+17%Malik NabersTyrone Tracy, David Njoku, Cooper Kupp, 1 more
2025-09-16+49%De'Von Achane, C.J. Stroud, 1 1stBaker Mayfield, 1 2nd
2025-09-07+1%Theo Johnson, Austin Ekeler, Josh Allen, 2 moreJack Bech, Emeka Egbuka, Josh Jacobs, 2 more, 2 1sts, 2 later picks
2025-07-02+14%Davante Adams, Saquon Barkley, Justin HerbertJayden Daniels, Kenneth Walker

Read each row as: A.J. Brown, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Puka Nacua 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 24, the whole-deal value gap runs +1.7% from the side that received A.J. Brown - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is A.J. Brown for Puka Nacua 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 24 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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