Austin Ekeler and Jonathan Taylor have been on opposite sides of 30 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 9 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 9 times it was the Austin Ekeler 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 Jonathan Taylor as the more valuable of the two.
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 Jonathan Taylor at 6,232, so the market currently rates Jonathan Taylor about 2077.3x 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 Jonathan Taylor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | +19% | Cooper Rush, Ja'Marr Chase, Jalen Tolbert, 19 more, 1 2nd, 2 3rds, 1 later pick | Sam Darnold, Devin Singletary, Michael Wilson, 17 more, 2 1sts, 1 later pick |
| 2025-05-18 | +2% | Jared Wiley, Hunter Henry, Christian McCaffrey, 5 more, 2 later picks | Brenden Rice, Tyler Boyd, Samaje Perine, 2 more, 2 1sts, 2 3rds, 1 later pick |
| 2024-10-18 | -75% | Josh Jacobs, 1 later pick | — |
| 2024-02-04 | -89% | Geno Smith, Joe Mixon, Cooper Kupp, 4 more | Josh Allen, Mark Andrews, Nico Collins, 1 more, 2 1sts, 2 2nds |
| 2023-12-19 | -34% | Cooper Kupp | — |
| 2023-11-21 | -62% | 1 2nd | 1 1st |
| 2023-11-15 | -27% | Alvin Kamara, Dalton Schultz | 1 1st |
| 2023-10-20 | +57% | Adam Thielen, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Jacobs, 1 more | Evan Engram, Zay Jones, Najee Harris, 2 1sts, 1 2nd, 1 3rd |
| 2023-10-19 | -48% | — | 1 2nd, 1 later pick |
| 2023-08-27 | -27% | Cooper Kupp | Greg Dulcich, 1 1st |
Read each row as: Austin Ekeler, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jonathan Taylor 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 30, the whole-deal value gap runs -24.9% from the side that received Austin Ekeler, so the side ending up with Jonathan Taylor 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 Jonathan Taylor 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 30 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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