Ezekiel Elliott and Miles Sanders 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 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 0 to 3 between the Ezekiel Elliott side and the Miles Sanders side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.
| Date | Margin | Went with Ezekiel Elliott | Went with Miles Sanders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-19 | +121% | Zack Moss | Hayden Hurst, 1 3rd, 1 later pick |
| 2023-05-30 | -8% | 1 1st | Curtis Samuel, Malik Davis |
| 2023-04-13 | -27% | Tyler Lockett, 1 1st, 1 2nd | Javonte Williams, George Pickens, 1 3rd |
| 2022-10-10 | +99% | Derrick Henry | Nyheim Miller-Hines, 1 2nd, 1 later pick |
| 2022-09-10 | +47% | Daniel Jones, 1 1st | Jalen Hurts, 2 later picks |
| 2022-08-10 | +12% | Dak Prescott, Dalton Schultz, Michael Gallup, 2 more | Dallas Goedert, Avonte Maddox, Mecole Hardman, 2 more, 1 1st, 1 2nd |
| 2022-06-15 | +1% | Allen Robinson, Mike Evans, Joe Mixon, 1 more | Brandin Cooks, Jared Goff, Cooper Kupp, 1 more, 1 2nd |
| 2022-06-07 | -16% | CeeDee Lamb, Jalen Tolbert | A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, Kenny Gainwell, 1 2nd |
| 2022-02-27 | -51% | — | 1 1st, 1 2nd |
| 2021-10-23 | +20% | Joe Mixon | Antonio Gibson, Kadarius Toney |
Read each row as: Ezekiel Elliott, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Miles Sanders 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 Ezekiel Elliott; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 24, the whole-deal value gap runs +14.1% from the side that received Ezekiel Elliott, so the side ending up with Ezekiel Elliott 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 Ezekiel Elliott for Miles Sanders 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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