Read Option

Is Brock Bowers for Sam LaPorta fair?

Brock Bowers and Sam LaPorta have been on opposite sides of 32 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 13 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 11 of those 13 times it was the Sam LaPorta side (2 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Brock Bowers as the more valuable of the two.

32
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
2 / 11
One side sweetened: Brock Bowers / Sam LaPorta

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 5,821 and Sam LaPorta at 3,804, so the market currently rates Brock Bowers about 1.5x 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.

Grade Brock Bowers for Sam LaPorta now Scout your league

The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Brock BowersWent with Sam LaPorta
2026-07-23-51%Ladd McConkey, Bhayshul Tuten, 1 2nd
2026-06-22+2%Trevor Lawrence, Josh DownsMarvin Harrison, Brian Thomas, Cam Ward, 1 later pick
2026-06-02+24%Bhayshul Tuten, George Pickens, Chase Brown, 1 1stBijan Robinson, 1 2nd
2026-05-19-9%2 later picksQuinshon Judkins
2026-04-23-73%Ollie Gordon, Romeo Doubs1 1st, 2 2nds
2025-11-29-17%Trey Benson, 1 1st
2025-11-16-4%Jacory Croskey-MerrittPat Bryant, Oronde Gadsden, Matthew Golden
2025-11-16+15%2 1sts
2025-11-11-24%Brian ThomasMalik Nabers, Kenneth Walker
2025-10-30+40%Bucky Irving, TreVeyon HendersonTyler Shough, 1 1st, 3 2nds, 2 3rds

Read each row as: Brock Bowers, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Sam LaPorta 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 32, the whole-deal value gap runs -25.4% from the side that received Brock Bowers, so the side ending up with Sam LaPorta 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 Sam LaPorta 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 32 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

How trade fairness actually works →

Full trade histories

Every Brock Bowers trade · Every Sam LaPorta trade

Other matchups for these two

All players with real trade data →

Values from DynastyProcess and nflverse. Trades from public Sleeper leagues. When the data will not support a fair grade I leave it out and say so. Is this trade fair? · All players · Privacy · Terms