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Is Cam Akers for Jonathan Taylor fair?

Cam Akers and Jonathan Taylor have been on opposite sides of 28 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: Cam Akers for Jonathan Taylor, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 8 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 8 of those 8 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 Jonathan Taylor as the more valuable of the two.

28
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
8 / 0
One side sweetened: Cam Akers / Jonathan Taylor

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 Jonathan Taylor at 6,232, so the market currently rates Jonathan Taylor about 3116.0x 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 Jonathan Taylor
2024-08-29-74%George Pickens
2024-08-20-58%Javonte Williams, Rhamondre Stevenson
2024-07-31-22%Roman Wilson, Keon Coleman, Javonte Williams, 2 1stsDavante Adams, Amari Cooper, Stefon Diggs
2023-09-16-42%Jared Goff, 1 1st, 1 2ndBrock Purdy, 1 1st
2023-09-14-57%J.K. Dobbins, Antonio Gibson, Mac Jones, 2 more, 1 2ndDak Prescott, James Cook, Skyy Moore
2023-09-14+48%Garrett Wilson1 2nd, 1 3rd
2023-09-11-35%Brandin Cooks, Calvin Ridley
2023-09-04-57%Marquise Brown, Rachaad WhiteJamaal Williams, Trey Lance, Jameson Williams
2023-07-21-9%Chris Olave, Bijan RobinsonAntonio Gibson, Garrett Wilson, 1 1st
2023-06-30-69%1 1st1 later pick

Read each row as: Cam Akers, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jonathan Taylor 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 28, the whole-deal value gap runs -30.9% from the side that received Cam Akers, so the side ending up with Jonathan Taylor 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 Jonathan Taylor 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 28 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