DK Metcalf and J.K. Dobbins have been on opposite sides of 24 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: DK Metcalf for J.K. Dobbins, nothing else changing hands.
In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 0 to 3 between the DK Metcalf side and the J.K. Dobbins side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.
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 DK Metcalf prices at 2,285 and J.K. Dobbins at 291, so the market currently rates DK Metcalf about 7.9x 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.
| Date | Margin | Went with DK Metcalf | Went with J.K. Dobbins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-22 | -88% | Devontez Walker, Geno Smith, Davante Adams, 14 more | James Conner, Tucker Kraft, Andrei Iosivas, 15 more, 1 later pick |
| 2026-06-13 | -17% | Joe Milton, Rachaad White, Kirk Cousins, 15 more, 1 1st, 1 3rd | Matthew Stafford, Justice Hill, Michael Wilson, 19 more, 1 1st, 1 3rd, 1 later pick |
| 2026-05-04 | +21% | Jacob Cowing, Sam Darnold, Isaiah Davis, 15 more, 1 3rd | CeeDee Lamb, Chris Godwin, Zach Ertz, 16 more, 1 1st, 2 2nds, 1 later pick |
| 2026-05-02 | +131% | 1 2nd, 1 3rd | 1 2nd, 1 3rd |
| 2026-04-29 | +2% | Sam Darnold, 1 1st | Emeka Egbuka, 1 1st |
| 2025-12-10 | -24% | Derrick Henry, Dallas Goedert | Breece Hall |
| 2025-12-01 | +8% | David Montgomery, Jordan Mason | Xavier Worthy, Jalen Milroe, 1 2nd |
| 2025-06-15 | +4% | Kayshon Boutte, Tua Tagovailoa, Allen Lazard, 9 more, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rd, 3 later picks | Joe Milton, Daniel Jones, Michael Wilson, 12 more |
| 2025-02-15 | +2% | 1 1st | Travis Etienne, 1 1st |
| 2025-01-25 | -12% | Patrick Mahomes, 1 2nd, 2 3rds | Caleb Williams, Aaron Jones, Rashid Shaheed, 2 1sts |
Read each row as: DK Metcalf, 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 DK Metcalf; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 24, the whole-deal value gap runs +10.8% from the side that received DK Metcalf, 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.
A calculator answers “is DK Metcalf 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 24 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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