Brandon Aiyuk and George Pickens have been on opposite sides of 40 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. 5 of them were straight up: Brandon Aiyuk for George Pickens, nothing else changing hands.
This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 8 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 8 times it was the Brandon Aiyuk side (3 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating George Pickens 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 Brandon Aiyuk prices at 880 and George Pickens at 4,858, so the market currently rates George Pickens about 5.5x 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 Brandon Aiyuk | Went with George Pickens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-18 | -4% | Brock Purdy, 1 1st | Cam Ward, 1 1st |
| 2025-08-03 | +6% | — | — |
| 2025-05-19 | +44% | — | — |
| 2025-05-18 | +38% | Rashee Rice, Tucker Kraft, 1 1st, 1 2nd | RJ Harvey, George Kittle, Sam Darnold, 1 more |
| 2025-04-23 | +34% | Ja'Tavion Sanders, Rashod Bateman, 2 2nds | Adonai Mitchell, Dallas Goedert, 1 3rd |
| 2024-11-29 | -21% | Blake Corum, Malachi Corley, Adonai Mitchell, 1 1st | Jonathan Taylor |
| 2024-11-16 | +109% | 1 1st | 1 3rd |
| 2024-11-14 | +69% | Jake Ferguson | — |
| 2024-11-13 | +52% | Bucky Irving | Zach Ertz |
| 2024-11-03 | +23% | Kenneth Walker, Zay Flowers | Travis Etienne, De'Von Achane |
Read each row as: Brandon Aiyuk, plus anything in the third column, was traded for George Pickens 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.
Across all 40, the whole-deal value gap runs +23.1% from the side that received Brandon Aiyuk, so the side ending up with Brandon Aiyuk 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 Brandon Aiyuk for George Pickens 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 40 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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