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Is Bucky Irving for Saquon Barkley fair?

Bucky Irving and Saquon Barkley have been on opposite sides of 21 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. 1 of them were straight up: Bucky Irving for Saquon Barkley, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 5 times it was the Bucky Irving side (0 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Saquon Barkley as the more valuable of the two.

21
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
5 / 0
One side sweetened: Bucky Irving / Saquon Barkley

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 Bucky Irving prices at 2,080 and Saquon Barkley at 3,304, so the market currently rates Saquon Barkley about 1.6x 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 Bucky IrvingWent with Saquon Barkley
2026-06-27-27%
2026-06-14+5%Gunnar Helm, 1 2nd
2025-11-28+11%1 1st, 1 2ndMichael Wilson, Sam Darnold
2025-11-14-31%DeVonta Smith, Isaiah LikelyA.J. Brown, Javonte Williams
2025-11-11+42%Zay Flowers, 1 2ndKeenan Allen, Mark Andrews
2025-10-04+16%Trey Benson
2025-09-25+52%Jaylen Waddle, 1 3rdTyquan Thornton, 1 2nd
2025-08-28-43%Jayden Daniels, Matthew Golden, Darnell Mooney, 1 2ndStefon Diggs, CeeDee Lamb, C.J. Stroud
2025-06-29-12%Jauan Jennings1 3rd
2025-06-21+1%1 1st1 2nd

Read each row as: Bucky Irving, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Saquon Barkley 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 Bucky Irving; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs -12.5% from the side that received Bucky Irving, so the side ending up with Saquon Barkley 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 Bucky Irving for Saquon Barkley 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 21 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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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