Austin Ekeler and Christian McCaffrey 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. 1 of them were straight up: Austin Ekeler for Christian McCaffrey, nothing else changing hands.
In 1 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 1 to 0 between the Austin Ekeler side and the Christian McCaffrey 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 Austin Ekeler prices at 3 and Christian McCaffrey at 4,381, so the market currently rates Christian McCaffrey about 1460.3x 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 Austin Ekeler | Went with Christian McCaffrey |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-30 | -13% | CeeDee Lamb, Baker Mayfield, Tucker Kraft, 11 more, 2 2nds, 2 3rds | Audric Estime, Jahan Dotson, Zach Wilson, 11 more, 2 1sts, 2 2nds, 2 3rds, 1 later pick |
| 2024-11-09 | -38% | Caleb Williams, Quentin Johnston, 2 1sts, 2 2nds, 1 3rd | Josh Allen, Travis Etienne |
| 2024-09-05 | -44% | Taysom Hill, Nick Chubb, Quentin Johnston, 1 more, 1 1st | Michael Penix |
| 2023-09-12 | -46% | 1 2nd | — |
| 2023-05-14 | -8% | Lamar Jackson, Tyler Huntley | Travis Kelce, Baker Mayfield, 1 2nd |
| 2023-05-07 | -20% | 1 1st, 1 3rd | Deebo Samuel |
| 2023-03-12 | -13% | Davante Adams, James Conner, Russell Gage, 3 more, 1 later pick | Evan Engram, Calvin Ridley, 1 1st, 2 3rds |
| 2023-02-27 | +14% | Kyle Van Noy, Mike Williams, Rhamondre Stevenson, 1 more | Cordarrelle Patterson, Christian Kirk, Fred Warner, 2 later picks |
| 2023-02-12 | +7% | Mike Evans, Stefon Diggs | 1 1st, 1 2nd |
| 2022-09-05 | -24% | — | — |
Read each row as: Austin Ekeler, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Christian McCaffrey 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 Austin Ekeler; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 22, the whole-deal value gap runs -16.6% from the side that received Austin Ekeler, so the side ending up with Christian McCaffrey 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 Austin Ekeler for Christian McCaffrey 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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