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Is Cam Akers for Christian McCaffrey fair?

Cam Akers and Christian McCaffrey 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.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 6 of those 6 times it was the Cam Akers 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 Christian McCaffrey as the more valuable of the two.

21
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
6 / 0
One side sweetened: Cam Akers / Christian McCaffrey

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 Cam Akers prices at 2 and Christian McCaffrey at 4,381, so the market currently rates Christian McCaffrey about 2190.5x 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.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Cam AkersWent with Christian McCaffrey
2024-10-12-96%Brian Thomas, 1 3rdTyreek Hill
2023-11-20+31%Jonathan Mingo, Breece Hall, Luke Musgrave, 1 1st1 3rd, 2 later picks
2023-11-15-28%Patrick Mahomes, J.K. Dobbins, Rashod Bateman, 1 more, 1 1stGeorge Kittle, Justin Herbert, Antonio Gibson, 1 more, 1 3rd
2023-10-23+4%Josh Jacobs, A.J. Brown, Kyren Williams, 1 later pickElijah Dotson, Chris Brooks, Cooper Kupp
2023-09-27-99%Jordan Love, 1 2ndTerry McLaurin
2023-08-03-26%Derek Carr, Pat Freiermuth, Zach Evans, 3 1sts, 1 2ndGeno Smith, Stefon Diggs, Michael Thomas, 2 more
2023-05-03-21%A.J. Brown, Nico Collins, Sam Howell, 1 3rd, 1 later pickKirk Cousins, Diontae Johnson, Miles Sanders
2023-03-31-74%Jordan Love, Kadarius Toney, 2 2nds, 1 later pickAaron Rodgers
2023-02-25-97%Darnell Mooney, Zonovan Knight, Kerby Joseph, 2 later picks
2022-09-30-89%Clyde Edwards-Helaire, 1 3rd

Read each row as: Cam Akers, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Christian McCaffrey 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 Cam Akers; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs -27.8% from the side that received Cam Akers, so the side ending up with Christian McCaffrey 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 Cam Akers for Christian McCaffrey 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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