Read Option

Is Cade Otton for T.J. Hockenson fair?

Cade Otton and T.J. Hockenson 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.

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 Cade Otton side and the T.J. Hockenson side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

21
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
3 / 0
One side sweetened: Cade Otton / T.J. Hockenson

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 Cade Otton prices at 80 and T.J. Hockenson at 197, so the market currently rates T.J. Hockenson about 2.5x 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 Cade Otton for T.J. Hockenson now Scout your league

The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Cade OttonWent with T.J. Hockenson
2025-10-08-78%Ryan Flournoy, 1 2nd, 1 3rd, 1 later pickMac Jones
2025-09-25-82%Oronde Gadsden, Tory Horton, Dak Prescott, 1 more, 1 2ndRashee Rice, Patrick Mahomes
2025-08-11+14%Saquon BarkleyJosh Jacobs
2025-03-29-105%Drake MayeKyler Murray, 2 1sts
2025-03-12-9%Pat Freiermuth, 3 1sts, 1 2ndTrey McBride, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 later pick
2025-01-25-9%Brian Thomas, Trevor Lawrence, 2 later picksJoe Milton, Malik Nabers, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2024-11-29-38%Brian Robinson, 1 1stChristian McCaffrey
2024-11-07-21%Jameson Williams, Brian Robinson, 1 3rdMarShawn Lloyd, Travis Etienne, Romeo Doubs
2024-09-14-143%Jordan Mason, 1 3rd
2024-09-01-25%Marquise Brown, Luke Musgrave, 1 3rd

Read each row as: Cade Otton, plus anything in the third column, was traded for T.J. Hockenson 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 Cade Otton; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs -25.4% from the side that received Cade Otton, so the side ending up with T.J. Hockenson 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 Cade Otton for T.J. Hockenson 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.

How trade fairness actually works →

Full trade histories

Every Cade Otton trade · Every T.J. Hockenson 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