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Is Christian McCaffrey for DeVonta Smith fair?

Christian McCaffrey and DeVonta Smith 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.

None of them were a straight one-for-one. Every time these two crossed, something else was attached to close it.

In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 0 to 3 between the Christian McCaffrey side and the DeVonta Smith side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

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Deals they were both in
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Straight up, one for one
0 / 3
One side sweetened: Christian McCaffrey / DeVonta Smith

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 DeVonta Smith at 5,020, so the market currently rates DeVonta Smith about 1.1x 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 DeVonta Smith
2026-02-26-6%A.J. Brown, Justin JeffersonChuba Hubbard, Cade Otton, Christian Watson, 2 more, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2025-09-26+29%Marvin Harrison, Tucker KraftBrock Bowers, Jacory Croskey-Merritt
2025-09-11+17%Michael Penix, David Njoku, Deebo Samuel, 3 moreJared Goff, Nick Chubb, Tua Tagovailoa, 1 more, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2025-06-21+2%1 1stNajee Harris, Zay Flowers
2025-06-20-57%Davante Adams, Dak Prescott, Nick ChubbJaylen Waddle, Breece Hall, Anthony Richardson
2025-05-29+6%Tory Horton, Hunter Henry, Bijan RobinsonNico Collins, 1 1st
2025-05-04+4%A.J. Brown, Zay Flowers, 1 1st, 1 2ndDrake London, 1 1st
2024-09-12+8%Keon Coleman1 1st
2024-09-04-16%Amari Cooper, Raheem Mostert2 1sts
2024-07-03-0%Odell Beckham, JuJu Smith-Schuster, 2 later picksRasheen Ali, Tyrone Tracy, 1 1st, 3 3rds

Read each row as: Christian McCaffrey, plus anything in the third column, was traded for DeVonta Smith 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 +1.8% from the side that received Christian McCaffrey - 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 Christian McCaffrey for DeVonta Smith 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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