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Is Christian McCaffrey for Ja'Marr Chase fair?

Christian McCaffrey and Ja'Marr Chase have been on opposite sides of 25 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.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 5 times it was the Christian McCaffrey 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 Ja'Marr Chase as the more valuable of the two.

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Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
5 / 0
One side sweetened: Christian McCaffrey / Ja'Marr Chase

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 Ja'Marr Chase at 10,232, so the market currently rates Ja'Marr Chase about 2.3x 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 Ja'Marr Chase
2025-10-01-14%Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, 1 later pickRJ Harvey, Travis Etienne, 1 2nd
2024-11-28+34%Drake London, De'Von AchaneChristian Kirk, 1 1st, 2 2nds
2024-10-03-82%Brian Thomas, Joe Flacco, Mike Gesicki, 1 3rdJustin Jefferson, Colby Parkinson, Andy Dalton
2024-09-14-12%Jayden Reed
2024-01-12+34%Jaylen Waddle1 3rd
2023-11-22-28%1 2ndTank Dell
2023-09-21-18%Joshua Kelley, Jahan Dotson, Puka NacuaRoschon Johnson, Calvin Ridley
2023-09-12-3%Jordan Love, Jaxon Smith-NjigbaBryce Young
2023-07-24+9%Michael Thomas, A.J. BrownJosh Jacobs
2023-07-13-8%Adam Thielen, Derrick HenryNyheim Miller-Hines, Antonio Gibson

Read each row as: Christian McCaffrey, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Ja'Marr Chase 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 25, the whole-deal value gap runs +14.9% 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 Ja'Marr Chase 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 25 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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