A.J. Brown and Brian Thomas have been on opposite sides of 26 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. 2 of them were straight up: A.J. Brown for Brian Thomas, nothing else changing hands.
In 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 2 between the A.J. Brown side and the Brian Thomas side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.
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 A.J. Brown prices at 5,646 and Brian Thomas at 2,662, so the market currently rates A.J. Brown about 2.1x 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.
| Date | Margin | Went with A.J. Brown | Went with Brian Thomas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-16 | +63% | — | Dylan Sampson |
| 2026-06-05 | +14% | Emanuel Wilson, David Njoku, Nico Collins, 1 more | Dalton Kincaid, George Kittle, 1 1st, 2 2nds |
| 2026-06-03 | +63% | — | — |
| 2026-05-27 | +65% | Aaron Jones | Tahj Brooks |
| 2026-05-20 | +53% | 1 3rd | Tyrone Tracy |
| 2026-05-19 | +62% | — | — |
| 2026-04-29 | +1% | Rashee Rice, Kyler Murray, Zach Charbonnet | Ladd McConkey, 1 1st, 1 2nd |
| 2026-04-25 | +1% | George Kittle, Breece Hall | 1 1st, 2 3rds |
| 2026-04-08 | +23% | DK Metcalf | 1 2nd |
| 2026-03-02 | +14% | Brock Bowers, 1 1st, 2 2nds, 1 3rd | Marvin Harrison, Oronde Gadsden, Jaxson Dart |
Read each row as: A.J. Brown, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Brian Thomas 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 A.J. Brown; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 26, the whole-deal value gap runs +13.9% from the side that received A.J. Brown, so the side ending up with A.J. Brown has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.
A calculator answers “is A.J. Brown for Brian Thomas 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 26 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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