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Is T.J. Hockenson for Travis Kelce fair?

T.J. Hockenson and Travis Kelce have been on opposite sides of 69 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. 6 of them were straight up: T.J. Hockenson for Travis Kelce, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 14 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 12 of those 14 times it was the T.J. Hockenson side (2 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Travis Kelce as the more valuable of the two.

69
Deals they were both in
6
Straight up, one for one
12 / 2
One side sweetened: T.J. Hockenson / 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 T.J. Hockenson prices at 197 and Travis Kelce at 265, so the market currently rates Travis Kelce 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 T.J. HockensonWent with Travis Kelce
2026-03-16-5%Michael Wilson, Zay Flowers, 1 2ndXavier Worthy, A.J. Brown, Najee Harris, 1 3rd
2025-11-23+37%
2025-11-01+28%Jermaine Burton, Arian Smith, Jalen HurtsJared Goff, Derrick Henry, David Montgomery, 1 3rd
2025-08-21-27%Diontae Johnson1 1st
2025-08-11-5%Tyreek Hill, Jauan Jennings, Sam Howell, 1 moreJacob Cowing, Jake Browning, Devin Singletary, 1 more
2024-09-17-52%Stefon Diggs
2024-08-24+17%Marquise Brown, 1 3rdDevin Singletary
2024-08-04+39%Jordan AddisonDiontae Johnson, Tyler Allgeier
2024-07-11+38%DeMario Douglas, 1 1st, 1 2ndStefon Diggs
2024-05-22+4%Brandon Aiyuk, Brock Purdy, 2 1sts, 1 2ndTyreek Hill, Patrick Mahomes, 2 3rds

Read each row as: T.J. Hockenson, 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 T.J. Hockenson; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 69, the whole-deal value gap runs -20.7% from the side that received T.J. Hockenson, so the side ending up with Travis Kelce 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 T.J. Hockenson 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 69 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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