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Is Christian McCaffrey for Davante Adams fair?

Christian McCaffrey and Davante Adams 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. 2 of them were straight up: Christian McCaffrey for Davante Adams, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 6 times it was the Davante Adams side (1 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.

23
Deals they were both in
2
Straight up, one for one
1 / 5
One side sweetened: Christian McCaffrey / Davante Adams

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 Christian McCaffrey prices at 4,381 and Davante Adams at 1,064, so the market currently rates Christian McCaffrey about 4.1x 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 Christian McCaffreyWent with Davante Adams
2025-12-28+42%George Kittle
2025-12-25+2%De'Von AchaneJahmyr Gibbs
2025-10-31+33%Devin Singletary, Amon-Ra St. BrownJalen Coker, Woody Marks, Elic Ayomanor, 3 more
2025-09-13+4%Justin HerbertDrake Maye, Rome Odunze, Tory Horton, 1 later pick
2025-06-19-52%Keon Coleman, George PickensTyreek Hill, Breece Hall
2025-05-02+83%Daniel Jones, 1 3rd
2024-12-25+126%Dallas Goedert, 1 2ndZach Ertz, Mason Rudolph
2024-12-10+57%Brian Thomas, Jordan MasonDeAndre Hopkins, Derrick Henry, Cooper Kupp
2024-12-09-7%Chris Godwin, Taysom Hill, 1 3rd, 1 later pickNajee Harris, Brian Robinson
2024-09-25+103%Bucky Irving

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

The whole-deal margin

Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +12.2% from the side that received Christian McCaffrey, 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 Christian McCaffrey for Davante Adams 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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