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Is Cooper Kupp for DK Metcalf fair?

Cooper Kupp and DK Metcalf have been on opposite sides of 23 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: Cooper Kupp for DK Metcalf, nothing else changing hands.

In 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 2 between the Cooper Kupp side and the DK Metcalf side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

23
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
2 / 2
One side sweetened: Cooper Kupp / DK Metcalf

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 Cooper Kupp prices at 17 and DK Metcalf at 2,285, so the market currently rates DK Metcalf about 134.4x 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 Cooper KuppWent with DK Metcalf
2025-10-24-150%Rachaad White
2025-07-07-58%Evan EngramAJ Barner
2025-06-15-4%Joe Milton, Daniel Jones, Michael Wilson, 12 moreKayshon Boutte, Tua Tagovailoa, Allen Lazard, 9 more, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rd, 3 later picks
2025-05-24+51%1 1st, 1 3rd1 3rd
2025-04-08-21%Dallas Goedert, Chris Olave, 1 2ndDalton Schultz, Jaylen Waddle, 1 3rd
2024-09-12-39%Tyreek Hill, Matthew Stafford, 1 1st, 1 2ndJavonte Williams, Drake London, Brock Purdy, 1 more
2024-07-29-2%Christian McCaffrey, Marquise Brown, 1 1stXavier Worthy, Derrick Henry, Romeo Doubs, 1 more
2024-03-16+7%1 1st, 1 2nd1 1st
2024-02-16-20%Michael PittmanTee Higgins
2023-11-07-19%Joe Mixon, 1 2nd1 1st

Read each row as: Cooper Kupp, plus anything in the third column, was traded for DK Metcalf 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 Cooper Kupp; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs -3.5% from the side that received Cooper Kupp, so the side ending up with DK Metcalf 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 Cooper Kupp for DK Metcalf 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 23 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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