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Is George Pickens for Nico Collins fair?

George Pickens and Nico Collins 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.

Most of those were larger deals with other pieces attached. 1 of them were straight up: George Pickens for Nico Collins, 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 George Pickens 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 Nico Collins as the more valuable of the two.

25
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
5 / 1
One side sweetened: George Pickens / Nico Collins

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 Nico Collins at 6,188, so the market currently rates Nico Collins 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 George PickensWent with Nico Collins
2026-06-24-3%1 1stTravis Etienne
2026-05-12+1%
2026-04-27+8%Tyrone Tracy
2025-11-30+23%Rashee Rice, Kyler Murray, Breece HallDrake Maye, 1 1st
2025-11-20-53%Wan'Dale Robinson, Jaylen WarrenOronde Gadsden
2025-10-10-82%Deebo SamuelAaron Jones
2025-05-21-4%Tucker Kraft, 1 1st
2025-05-07+1%T.J. Hockenson, Bryce Young, 1 2ndKareem Hunt
2025-02-26-72%1 1stBucky Irving, Tyrone Tracy, 1 2nd
2025-02-26+10%Jaylen Waddle

Read each row as: George Pickens, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Nico Collins 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 +1.0% from the side that received George Pickens - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is George Pickens for Nico Collins 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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Values from DynastyProcess and nflverse. Trades from public Sleeper leagues. When the data will not support a fair grade I leave it out and say so. Is this trade fair? · All players · Privacy · Terms