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Is Rashee Rice for Zay Flowers fair?

Rashee Rice and Zay Flowers have been on opposite sides of 34 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: Rashee Rice for Zay Flowers, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 4 of those 5 times it was the Zay Flowers 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 Rashee Rice as the more valuable of the two.

34
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
1 / 4
One side sweetened: Rashee Rice / Zay Flowers

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 Rashee Rice prices at 3,950 and Zay Flowers at 4,657, so the market currently rates Zay Flowers about 1.2x 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 2026-09-04.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Rashee RiceWent with Zay Flowers
2026-08-14-81%Trey Benson, Tyrone Tracy, Keenan Allen, 8 moreTre Tucker, Elijah Higgins, Will Shipley, 8 more, 1 1st
2026-05-27+25%
2026-05-26+10%Bo Nix, Harold Fannin, 1 1stJordan Love, Trey McBride
2026-04-27+12%Jordan Love, 1 1st, 1 2ndC.J. Stroud, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2026-04-27+8%Bucky IrvingKenneth Walker, 1 3rd, 1 later pick
2026-04-13+7%A.J. BrownGeorge Pickens
2026-01-21+40%1 3rd
2025-09-23-7%Alec PierceIsaiah Likely
2025-09-16+67%Joe Burrow, 1 2ndTroy Franklin, Jared Goff, J.K. Dobbins
2025-09-16+48%Brock Bowers, Marquise Brown, Chuba HubbardMike Evans, James Conner, Dallas Goedert, 1 more, 1 2nd

Read each row as: Rashee Rice, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Zay Flowers 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 Rashee Rice; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 34, the whole-deal value gap runs -9.3% from the side that received Rashee Rice, so the side ending up with Zay Flowers 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 Rashee Rice for Zay Flowers 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 34 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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