Clyde Edwards-Helaire and Ezekiel Elliott have been on opposite sides of 22 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 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 4 of those 4 times it was the Clyde Edwards-Helaire 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 Ezekiel Elliott as the more valuable of the two.
| Date | Margin | Went with Clyde Edwards-Helaire | Went with Ezekiel Elliott |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-28 | +110% | Trey McBride | Joshua Dobbs |
| 2023-09-17 | +4% | Kenny Gainwell, Khalil Herbert, Kayshon Boutte, 1 3rd | Hunter Henry, Elijah Moore, Zamir White |
| 2023-02-05 | +16% | Daniel Jones, Nico Collins, Christian Watson | Antonio Gibson, Trey Lance, Brock Purdy |
| 2022-10-26 | -33% | Noah Gray, 1 1st, 2 2nds, 2 3rds, 2 later picks | DeAndre Hopkins, Alvin Kamara |
| 2022-09-23 | -33% | 1 3rd | 2 2nds |
| 2022-09-21 | -38% | Mac Jones, Dameon Pierce, 1 1st | Tony Pollard, Trey Lance, Treylon Burks |
| 2022-09-08 | +52% | Travis Kelce, Nick Bolton, Noah Gray, 1 more | Leighton Vander Esch, Dalton Schultz, Luke Gifford |
| 2022-07-25 | -36% | John Metchie | Chris Evans, Tyler Badie |
| 2022-05-13 | +30% | Travis Kelce, 1 1st | Mo Alie-Cox, George Kittle, Chase Claypool |
| 2022-03-29 | +15% | Kirk Cousins, Davante Adams, Evan Engram, 3 more, 1 3rd | Matt Ryan, Blake Jarwin, DJ Chark, 2 more, 1 1st |
Read each row as: Clyde Edwards-Helaire, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Ezekiel Elliott 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 Clyde Edwards-Helaire; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 22, the whole-deal value gap runs -11.7% from the side that received Clyde Edwards-Helaire, so the side ending up with Ezekiel Elliott 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 Clyde Edwards-Helaire for Ezekiel Elliott 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 22 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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