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Is Clyde Edwards-Helaire for Saquon Barkley fair?

Clyde Edwards-Helaire and Saquon Barkley have been on opposite sides of 21 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 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 Saquon Barkley as the more valuable of the two.

21
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
5 / 0
One side sweetened: Clyde Edwards-Helaire / Saquon Barkley

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 Saquon Barkley at 3,304, so the market currently rates Saquon Barkley about 3304.0x 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 Saquon Barkley
2024-09-30-23%Ja'Lynn Polk, Jordan Love, Gabe Davis, 1 more, 1 1st, 1 2ndDavante Adams, Amari Cooper, Joe Mixon, 1 more
2023-09-21-30%DJ Chark, DeVonta SmithTerry McLaurin
2023-05-20+1%Mike Evans, D'Onta Foreman, George Kittle, 6 more, 1 3rdMarvin Jones, Tyler Boyd, James Conner, 4 more
2022-07-08-8%Adam Thielen, Antonio Gibson, Malik WillisMitchell Trubisky, KJ Hamler
2022-06-30-16%1 1st
2022-06-29-14%Mecole Hardman, Qadree Ollison, Isaiah Rodgers, 1 more, 1 1stLogan Ryan, Leonard Williams, Blake Martinez, 1 more, 1 3rd
2022-06-01-84%Trevor LawrenceJustin Fields
2022-04-25-16%Rashod Bateman, 1 1st1 1st
2022-04-07-60%Isaiah Spiller, 1 2nd
2021-11-04-78%Sammy Watkins, Chester Rogers, Myles Gaskin, 1 more, 1 later pick

Read each row as: Clyde Edwards-Helaire, 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 Clyde Edwards-Helaire; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs -16.2% from the side that received Clyde Edwards-Helaire, so the side ending up with Saquon Barkley 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 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 21 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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