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Is Sam LaPorta for Travis Kelce fair?

Sam LaPorta and Travis Kelce 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 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 3 to 3 between the Sam LaPorta side and the Travis Kelce side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

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Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
3 / 3
One side sweetened: Sam LaPorta / Travis Kelce

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 Sam LaPorta prices at 3,537 and Travis Kelce at 284, so the market currently rates Sam LaPorta about 12.5x 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 Sam LaPortaWent with Travis Kelce
2026-06-13+17%Matthew Stafford, Justice Hill, Michael Wilson, 19 more, 1 1st, 1 3rd, 1 later pickJoe Milton, Rachaad White, Kirk Cousins, 15 more, 1 1st, 1 3rd
2026-05-06-4%Bucky Irving, 2 1stsDalton Kincaid, Kaleb Johnson, Baker Mayfield, 3 more
2025-11-30+55%Tre' HarrisJakobi Meyers, D'Andre Swift
2025-11-25+129%1 2nd
2025-10-02+2%Drake Maye, Marvin Harrison, Ricky Pearsall, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 2 3rdsJosh Allen, Ja'Marr Chase, Jordan Mason
2025-03-23+110%1 later pickIsaiah Likely, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2025-03-22+40%Christian Kirk, 1 1stMike Evans, Zach Charbonnet, Jordan Addison, 1 2nd
2025-01-27+81%Jonnu Smith, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2024-11-25+89%Daniel Jones, 1 2ndAdam Thielen, Courtland Sutton
2024-11-16+88%Ladd McConkey, Zay FlowersTheo Johnson, Matthew Stafford, 3 2nds

Read each row as: Sam LaPorta, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Travis Kelce 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 Sam LaPorta; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 24, the whole-deal value gap runs +19.6% from the side that received Sam LaPorta, so the side ending up with Sam LaPorta 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 Sam LaPorta for Travis Kelce 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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