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Is Brock Bowers for Malik Nabers fair?

Brock Bowers and Malik Nabers have been on opposite sides of 20 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 2 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 1 to 1 between the Brock Bowers side and the Malik Nabers 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
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Straight up, one for one
1 / 1
One side sweetened: Brock Bowers / Malik Nabers

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 Brock Bowers prices at 5,890 and Malik Nabers at 7,809, so the market currently rates Malik Nabers about 1.3x 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 2026-09-04.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Brock BowersWent with Malik Nabers
2026-07-31-0%Rome OdunzeHarold Fannin
2026-07-26-6%Ladd McConkeyJake Ferguson, Jordan Mason, 1 1st, 1 later pick
2026-05-15-46%1 2nd1 1st
2026-05-13+8%Ashton Jeanty, Nico Collins, Jaxon Smith-NjigbaEmeka Egbuka, Trey McBride, Jahmyr Gibbs
2026-04-29-49%Isaac TeSlaa, 1 2nd
2026-04-20+52%Tetairoa McMillan, Josh AllenChris Olave, Malik Willis
2026-04-04-5%2 1stsAshton Jeanty, Christian Watson
2026-04-01-9%Ja'Marr Chase, 1 1stEmeka Egbuka, Malik Willis, 2 1sts
2025-11-25+3%Rico Dowdle1 2nd
2025-11-19+10%Breece HallMark Andrews, David Montgomery, 1 2nd

Read each row as: Brock Bowers, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Malik Nabers 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 Brock Bowers; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 20, the whole-deal value gap runs -6.8% from the side that received Brock Bowers, so the side ending up with Malik Nabers has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is Brock Bowers for Malik Nabers 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 20 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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