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Is Clyde Edwards-Helaire for J.K. Dobbins fair?

Clyde Edwards-Helaire and J.K. Dobbins have been on opposite sides of 26 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. 1 of them were straight up: Clyde Edwards-Helaire for J.K. Dobbins, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 7 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 6 of those 7 times it was the Clyde Edwards-Helaire 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 J.K. Dobbins as the more valuable of the two.

26
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
6 / 1
One side sweetened: Clyde Edwards-Helaire / J.K. Dobbins

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 Clyde Edwards-Helaire prices at 1 and J.K. Dobbins at 291, so the market currently rates J.K. Dobbins about 291.0x 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 Clyde Edwards-HelaireWent with J.K. Dobbins
2023-08-10-65%Jayden Reed, Jordan Love, Israel Abanikanda, 1 moreAllen Robinson, Robert Tonyan, Gus Edwards, 1 more
2023-02-11-32%1 1st, 1 later pickCam Akers
2022-11-10-20%Zach Ertz, 1 later pick
2022-11-01+29%Davante Adams1 1st
2022-09-22-28%Sterling Shepard, Dak Prescott, Corey DavisTrey Lance
2022-09-13+44%Keenan Allen, Marquise Brown, D'Andre SwiftCalvin Ridley, Chris Olave, 1 1st
2022-09-07-60%2 2ndsGus Edwards, 1 3rd
2022-08-23-88%Kyle Philips, 1 2ndTyler Badie
2022-08-12+32%Christian Kirk, Kyle Pitts, 1 2ndJuJu Smith-Schuster, Garrett Wilson, 1 2nd
2022-07-27-87%Ronald Jones, Isiah PachecoGus Edwards, Justice Hill

Read each row as: Clyde Edwards-Helaire, plus anything in the third column, was traded for J.K. Dobbins 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.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 26, the whole-deal value gap runs -6.2% from the side that received Clyde Edwards-Helaire, so the side ending up with J.K. Dobbins 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 Clyde Edwards-Helaire for J.K. Dobbins 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 26 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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