The Trade Desk

The Trades

Twenty trades in six years. This league guards its roster like it's the last thing it owns. Here's who actually pulls the trigger, who hasn't made a move in ages, and every single deal since 2020 laid out so you can relitigate the one that still keeps somebody up at night. Every trade needs two people to say yes. In this league that's a miracle.

Who actually deals

Two managers run this market and the other eight watch. Everything below is since 2020, the only window with a full log.

The Trade Machine
Nima → 13 of 20 trades

Since 2020, Nima has been on one end of 65% of every trade this league has made. The other nine managers combined can't out-deal the one guy they all keep calling. The handle is Mr TradeYoLifeAway. That's not a nickname, it's a warning label.

First blood at year six
Miles → one trade since 2020

Miles went five straight seasons without making a single trade, then finally made one in 2025. One deal in six years. He drafts his team in August and doesn't look at his phone again until the playoffs. Somehow it won him a ring once.

Nobody deals

Twenty trades in six years, and it's slowing down. Two in 2023, two in 2025. Half the league would rather ride a corpse than admit somebody offered them a better roster.

Biggest swing

The 2020 Austin and Pige blockbuster moved eight players in one trade, four for four. Nobody's come within a phone call of it since.

The well-traveled man

T.J. Hockenson got traded three years running, to three different teams. A tight end with a moving van and no fixed address.

Even the rivals deal

In 2024, Pige and Jack, the "beat porkchop" blood feud itself, actually made a trade. Then went right back to naming teams after each other.

How many times each manager said yes

Every trade needs two people to agree, which in this league is a small miracle. Here's how many deals each manager has been part of since 2020. One name is the market. One name is a voicemail nobody returns.

Nima is in 65% of every trade this league has made since 2020. Miles has been in one. Everybody else lives in the quiet middle, making a deal or two when the mood strikes and the price is right.

Every trade, every year

Pick a season. See who got the guy and who got got. The receipts don't expire.