Christian McCaffrey and Saquon Barkley have been on opposite sides of 38 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 Saquon Barkley, 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 4 of those 6 times it was the Christian McCaffrey side (2 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Saquon Barkley as the more valuable of the two.
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 Saquon Barkley at 3,304, so the market currently rates Christian McCaffrey about 1.3x 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.
| Date | Margin | Went with Christian McCaffrey | Went with Saquon Barkley |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-18 | +16% | Jared Goff, A.J. Brown, Jalen Hurts | Jayden Daniels, Terry McLaurin, 1 1st |
| 2025-06-04 | +4% | Jonnu Smith, De'Von Achane | Kenneth Walker |
| 2025-05-30 | +13% | Audric Estime, Jahan Dotson, Zach Wilson, 11 more, 2 1sts, 2 2nds, 2 3rds, 1 later pick | Bucky Irving, Jerry Jeudy, Devin Singletary, 14 more, 1 3rd, 1 later pick |
| 2025-05-13 | -52% | Kyren Williams | 2 1sts |
| 2025-03-25 | -17% | Isaac Guerendo, Christian Kirk, 2 2nds, 2 later picks | — |
| 2025-03-19 | +15% | Tee Higgins, Cole Kmet | Kyle Pitts |
| 2024-12-08 | +12% | Rashee Rice, AJ Barner, Xavier Legette, 1 2nd | Mike Evans |
| 2024-12-05 | +25% | Brian Thomas, Chris Godwin, Isaiah Likely | Travis Kelce |
| 2024-09-07 | +42% | — | — |
| 2024-08-30 | -13% | Tyreek Hill, Sam Darnold, Justin Jefferson | Jonathon Brooks, Marvin Harrison, Chris Olave, 2 1sts |
Read each row as: Christian McCaffrey, 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 Christian McCaffrey; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 38, the whole-deal value gap runs +7.1% 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.
A calculator answers “is Christian McCaffrey 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 38 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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