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Is Cam Akers for Saquon Barkley fair?

Cam Akers and Saquon Barkley have been on opposite sides of 23 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 Saquon Barkley, nothing else changing hands.

In 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 2 between the Cam Akers side and the Saquon Barkley side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

23
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
2 / 2
One side sweetened: Cam Akers / 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 Cam Akers prices at 2 and Saquon Barkley at 3,304, so the market currently rates Saquon Barkley about 1652.0x 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 Saquon Barkley
2023-12-07-53%DK Metcalf, J.K. Dobbins, Joshua Kelley, 2 moreTaysom Hill, Justin Jefferson, Calvin Austin
2023-08-23-108%DeAndre Hopkins, Jimmy Garoppolo, Cade OttonT.J. Hockenson, 1 3rd
2023-08-23-66%DJ Moore1 1st, 1 2nd
2023-07-19-56%Evan Engram, Trey Lance, 1 1stTyler Higbee, C.J. Stroud
2022-10-12-10%Russell Wilson, Gus Edwards, Jerry Jeudy, 1 later pickAllen Robinson, Marcus Mariota, Matt Breida
2022-10-06-48%Derrick Henry, A.J. Brown, Kenny PickettJoe Burrow, Javonte Williams
2022-08-21+3%Rashod Bateman, 1 2ndGabe Davis, 1 3rd
2022-08-08+70%Kendall Blanton, Matt Gay, Taylor Rapp, 17 moreLeonard Williams, Adoree' Jackson, Pharoh Cooper, 19 more
2022-08-03-33%Darrell Henderson, Brandon AiyukMatt Breida, Anthony Schwartz, Treylon Burks
2022-07-20-23%

Read each row as: Cam Akers, 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 Cam Akers; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs -9.7% from the side that received Cam Akers, 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 Cam Akers 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 23 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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