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Is David Njoku for Travis Kelce fair?

David Njoku and Travis Kelce have been on opposite sides of 36 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: David Njoku for Travis Kelce, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 11 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 11 of those 11 times it was the David Njoku 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 Travis Kelce as the more valuable of the two.

36
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
11 / 0
One side sweetened: David Njoku / Travis Kelce

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 David Njoku prices at 88 and Travis Kelce at 265, so the market currently rates Travis Kelce about 3.0x 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 David NjokuWent with Travis Kelce
2026-06-13+17%Matthew Stafford, Justice Hill, Michael Wilson, 19 more, 1 1st, 1 3rd, 1 later pickJoe Milton, Rachaad White, Kirk Cousins, 15 more, 1 1st, 1 3rd
2026-05-05+121%Josh Downs
2025-09-18+85%
2024-12-10+15%Andrei Iosivas, Roschon JohnsonCooper Rush
2024-11-23+22%Cade Stover, Jermaine Burton, Isiah Pacheco, 1 moreZach Ertz, Alvin Kamara
2024-11-21-27%Jaylen Wright
2024-08-16-25%1 2nd
2024-07-18+40%Tony Pollard, 1 2nd
2024-06-20+42%1 1stKeenan Allen
2024-05-20+6%Joe Tryon-Shoyinka, Jake Ferguson, 1 later pick1 later pick

Read each row as: David Njoku, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Travis Kelce 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 David Njoku; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 36, the whole-deal value gap runs -5.8% from the side that received David Njoku, so the side ending up with Travis Kelce 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 David Njoku for Travis Kelce 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 36 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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