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Is CeeDee Lamb for Christian McCaffrey fair?

CeeDee Lamb and Christian McCaffrey have been on opposite sides of 35 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. 2 of them were straight up: CeeDee Lamb for Christian McCaffrey, nothing else changing hands.

In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 1 to 2 between the CeeDee Lamb side and the Christian McCaffrey side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

35
Deals they were both in
2
Straight up, one for one
1 / 2
One side sweetened: CeeDee Lamb / 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 CeeDee Lamb prices at 9,034 and Christian McCaffrey at 4,381, so the market currently rates CeeDee Lamb about 2.1x 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 CeeDee LambWent with Christian McCaffrey
2026-07-26+33%David MontgomeryKenny Gainwell, 1 1st
2026-06-26+8%AJ Barner, Javonte Williams, Chig OkonkwoSaquon Barkley, Tee Higgins
2026-05-29+67%Kayshon Boutte, Noah Gray, Efton Chism, 21 moreJaleel McLaughlin, Daniel Jones, Geno Smith, 15 more, 1 1st, 2 3rds
2025-12-26+11%Bucky Irving, Brock BowersJosh Allen, Dallas Goedert, Jauan Jennings, 1 2nd
2025-10-02+38%Joe BurrowTory Horton, Jordan Love, Jordan Addison
2025-09-23+35%Jacory Croskey-MerrittDavante Adams, Alvin Kamara
2025-05-30-13%Baker Mayfield, Tucker Kraft, Austin Ekeler, 11 more, 2 2nds, 2 3rdsAudric Estime, Jahan Dotson, Zach Wilson, 11 more, 2 1sts, 2 2nds, 2 3rds, 1 later pick
2025-05-29+29%Xavier Worthy, Chris Godwin
2024-11-14+68%
2024-11-13+25%Bucky Irving, George Kittle

Read each row as: CeeDee Lamb, 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 CeeDee Lamb; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 35, the whole-deal value gap runs +2.2% from the side that received CeeDee Lamb - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is CeeDee Lamb 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 35 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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