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Is Brandon Aiyuk for Christian McCaffrey fair?

Brandon Aiyuk and Christian McCaffrey have been on opposite sides of 28 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.

In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 3 to 0 between the Brandon Aiyuk side and the Christian McCaffrey side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

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Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
3 / 0
One side sweetened: Brandon Aiyuk / Christian McCaffrey

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 Brandon Aiyuk prices at 880 and Christian McCaffrey at 4,381, so the market currently rates Christian McCaffrey about 5.0x 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 Brandon AiyukWent with Christian McCaffrey
2025-12-09+36%Ashton Jeanty, Mark AndrewsGeorge Kittle, Jakobi Meyers
2025-11-19+25%Ladd McConkey, Elijah Arroyo, Cam Ward, 1 more, 2 1sts, 1 2ndJaleel McLaughlin, Dillon Gabriel, Travis Kelce, 3 more, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2025-11-15+28%Ladd McConkey, Elijah Arroyo, Cam Ward, 1 more, 2 1sts, 1 2ndDillon Gabriel, Travis Kelce, Davante Adams, 2 more, 1 3rd
2025-09-13-8%Kaleb Johnson, Amon-Ra St. Brown, James CookA.J. Brown, Jonathan Taylor, 1 1st
2025-07-29+44%Jonathan TaylorIsiah Pacheco, 1 3rd
2025-04-17+13%Jayden Reed, Elic Ayomanor, 1 2nd, 1 3rdIsaac Guerendo, Tank Bigsby
2024-11-30-10%Erick All, Tyrone TracyTaysom Hill
2024-11-27+30%1 1st1 3rd
2024-11-23+7%1 1stDavante Adams
2024-11-21+18%Jonathon Brooks, Cade OttonDavid Njoku

Read each row as: Brandon Aiyuk, 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 Brandon Aiyuk; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 28, the whole-deal value gap runs +0.2% from the side that received Brandon Aiyuk - 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 Brandon Aiyuk 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 28 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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