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Is DK Metcalf for Michael Pittman fair?

DK Metcalf and Michael Pittman 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.

None of them were a straight one-for-one. Every time these two crossed, something else was attached to close it.

In 2 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 1 to 1 between the DK Metcalf side and the Michael Pittman side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

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Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
1 / 1
One side sweetened: DK Metcalf / Michael Pittman

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 DK Metcalf prices at 2,285 and Michael Pittman at 1,819, so the market currently rates DK Metcalf about 1.3x 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 DK MetcalfWent with Michael Pittman
2026-07-22-88%Devontez Walker, Geno Smith, Davante Adams, 14 moreJames Conner, Tucker Kraft, Andrei Iosivas, 15 more, 1 later pick
2026-07-06+33%Luther Burden1 1st, 1 3rd
2025-10-12+96%Spencer Rattler, 1 2nd, 1 3rdMac Jones
2025-01-14+44%Joe Mixon1 1st, 1 2nd
2024-12-08+57%Isaac Guerendo, Geno Smith, Terry McLaurinJa'Tavion Sanders, Bub Means, DJ Moore, 1 more
2024-11-16-2%D'Andre SwiftTyler Allgeier, 1 1st
2024-09-17-43%Keon ColemanIsiah Pacheco
2024-09-02+8%A.J. BrownJonathan Taylor
2024-06-17-20%1 2nd, 2 3rds2 2nds
2024-02-17+6%1 later pickCedric Tillman

Read each row as: DK Metcalf, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Michael Pittman 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.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 24, the whole-deal value gap runs +18.8% 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.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is DK Metcalf for Michael Pittman 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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