DK Metcalf and Keenan Allen 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.
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 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 6 of those 6 times it was the Keenan Allen 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 DK Metcalf as the more valuable of the two.
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 Keenan Allen at 13, so the market currently rates DK Metcalf about 175.8x 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 Keenan Allen |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2025-05-27 | +18% | Brian Thomas, Keon Coleman, 1 1st | Ja'Marr Chase, Khalil Shakir |
| 2025-02-07 | +1% | Matthew Stafford, Jauan Jennings, Kirk Cousins, 11 more, 2 2nds, 4 later picks | Demarcus Robinson, Theo Johnson, Will Shipley, 4 more, 4 1sts, 2 2nds, 3 3rds, 3 later picks |
| 2024-11-13 | +55% | — | Isiah Pacheco |
| 2024-08-21 | +14% | Caleb Williams, Rome Odunze, Stefon Diggs, 1 more | Jaylen Wright, James Conner, Matthew Stafford, 1 more |
| 2024-01-10 | +25% | Jonathan Mingo, Derrick Henry, Jalen Tolbert | Mike Evans, Austin Ekeler, Tutu Atwell |
| 2023-11-05 | +65% | — | K.J. Osborn, Sam Howell |
| 2023-10-18 | +60% | — | Tyler Lockett |
| 2023-10-13 | +82% | — | 1 3rd |
Read each row as: DK Metcalf, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Keenan Allen 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 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +21.0% 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 Keenan Allen 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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