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Is A.J. Brown for Ja'Marr Chase fair?

A.J. Brown and Ja'Marr Chase have been on opposite sides of 50 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: A.J. Brown for Ja'Marr Chase, 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 13 of those 14 times it was the A.J. Brown 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 Ja'Marr Chase as the more valuable of the two.

50
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
13 / 1
One side sweetened: A.J. Brown / Ja'Marr Chase

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 A.J. Brown prices at 5,646 and Ja'Marr Chase at 10,232, so the market currently rates Ja'Marr Chase about 1.8x 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 A.J. BrownWent with Ja'Marr Chase
2026-05-04-21%CeeDee Lamb, Chris Godwin, Zach Ertz, 16 more, 1 1st, 2 2nds, 1 later pickJacob Cowing, Sam Darnold, Isaiah Davis, 15 more, 1 3rd
2026-01-06-8%De'Von Achane1 3rd, 1 later pick
2025-10-26+19%AJ Barner, Xavier Worthy, 2 1sts, 1 later pickOronde Gadsden, Jaylen Warren
2025-10-09+20%Xavier Legette, George Pickens, Jordan Mason, 1 more
2025-06-08+20%Ja'Tavion Sanders, Isaac Guerendo, Jaylen Waddle, 1 moreJimmy Horn, Tony Pollard, Kyren Williams
2025-05-04+33%Jalen Hurts, Jahmyr GibbsSaquon Barkley, 1 2nd
2025-03-25+6%Rashee Rice, Michael Penix, Jordan MasonXavier Legette, Alec Pierce, Will Levis, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2024-09-04-19%D'Andre SwiftJermaine Burton
2024-07-11+5%Dak Prescott, 1 3rd, 1 later pickDeshaun Watson
2024-05-15+4%Zack Moss, Jaylen WaddleJavonte Williams

Read each row as: A.J. Brown, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Ja'Marr Chase 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.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 50, the whole-deal value gap runs +5.7% 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.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is A.J. Brown for Ja'Marr Chase 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 50 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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