Ezekiel Elliott and Saquon Barkley have been on opposite sides of 21 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. 2 of them were straight up: Ezekiel Elliott for Saquon Barkley, nothing else changing hands.
This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 6 times it was the Ezekiel Elliott side (1 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Saquon Barkley as the more valuable of the two.
| Date | Margin | Went with Ezekiel Elliott | Went with Saquon Barkley |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-20 | +14% | Tyjae Spears, 1 1st | — |
| 2024-05-07 | -28% | Mike Evans, Stefon Diggs, Kyler Murray, 2 3rds | DK Metcalf, Brock Purdy, 1 later pick |
| 2023-01-07 | -26% | Jimmy Garoppolo, Evan Engram, Ja'Marr Chase, 1 more | Darren Waller, Dak Prescott, Michael Pittman |
| 2022-10-20 | -85% | James Conner, Allen Lazard, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rd | Nick Chubb |
| 2022-10-13 | -12% | Kyler Murray | Matthew Stafford |
| 2022-10-01 | -46% | 1 1st | — |
| 2022-09-14 | -112% | Jimmy Garoppolo, Allen Robinson, Tyler Lockett, 5 more | Dak Prescott, Cooper Kupp, Nyheim Miller-Hines |
| 2022-09-09 | -40% | 1 1st, 1 3rd, 1 later pick | — |
| 2022-05-20 | -0% | Tim Patrick, 1 1st, 1 3rd | Jamison Crowder, David Njoku, 1 2nd |
| 2022-05-18 | -67% | — | — |
Read each row as: Ezekiel Elliott, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Saquon Barkley 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 21, the whole-deal value gap runs -25.9% from the side that received Ezekiel Elliott, so the side ending up with Saquon Barkley 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 Saquon Barkley 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 21 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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