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Is George Pickens for Malik Nabers fair?

George Pickens and Malik Nabers have been on opposite sides of 25 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 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 4 of those 4 times it was the George Pickens 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 Malik Nabers as the more valuable of the two.

25
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
4 / 0
One side sweetened: George Pickens / Malik Nabers

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 George Pickens prices at 4,858 and Malik Nabers at 7,995, so the market currently rates Malik Nabers about 1.6x 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 George PickensWent with Malik Nabers
2026-07-11-21%Carnell TateRome Odunze
2026-06-26+23%Christian McCaffrey, Lamar Jackson, Puka NacuaJustin Herbert, 3 1sts
2026-05-31+4%Bucky IrvingSkyler Bell
2026-05-27-18%Justin Joly, Kaytron Allen, Travis Etienne, 1 3rd1 1st
2026-05-17-19%Isiah Pacheco, Sam LaPorta, Lamar Jackson, 15 more, 2 2nds, 2 3rds, 2 later picksCooper Rush, Ja'Marr Chase, Jalen Tolbert, 19 more, 1 2nd, 2 3rds, 1 later pick
2026-04-23-0%Derrick Henry, Calvin Ridley
2026-03-09-3%1 1st1 2nd
2026-02-06-32%Kyle Pitts, Kimani Vidal, Trevor Lawrence, 12 more, 1 2nd, 1 later pickJames Cook, DeMario Douglas, Mike Gesicki, 8 more, 4 1sts, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2026-01-27+37%Sam Darnold, 1 1st, 1 later pickKenny Gainwell, 1 2nd, 1 later pick
2025-11-20-75%Travis Kelce

Read each row as: George Pickens, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Malik Nabers 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 George Pickens; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 25, the whole-deal value gap runs -20.6% from the side that received George Pickens, so the side ending up with Malik Nabers 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 George Pickens for Malik Nabers 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 25 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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