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Is A.J. Brown for Justin Jefferson fair?

A.J. Brown and Justin Jefferson have been on opposite sides of 31 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.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 11 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 11 of those 11 times it was the A.J. Brown side (0 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Justin Jefferson as the more valuable of the two.

31
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
11 / 0
One side sweetened: A.J. Brown / Justin Jefferson

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 Justin Jefferson at 9,205, so the market currently rates Justin Jefferson about 1.6x 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 Justin Jefferson
2025-10-30-18%Courtland Sutton, 1 2nd
2025-08-15+22%Amon-Ra St. Brown, 1 later pickJalen McMillan, 1 2nd
2025-08-15-17%Joe Mixon, 1 1stCade Otton, 1 3rd
2025-05-19+1%Brenton Strange, 1 1st
2025-05-02-21%Baker Mayfield1 1st
2025-02-14+29%David Njoku, T.J. Hockenson, Deebo Samuel, 2 moreCedric Tillman, Calvin Ridley, Jonathan Taylor, 1 more
2024-08-28-28%Romeo Doubs, Aaron Rodgers1 3rd
2024-05-11-12%Michael Wilson, Joe Flacco, Hunter Henry, 8 moreRobert Woods, Logan Thomas, DeVante Parker, 6 more, 1 2nd, 1 3rd, 1 later pick
2024-04-30+4%D'Andre Swift, Khalil Herbert, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2024-04-05+36%Kyler Murray, Josh Jacobs, 1 later pickBaker Mayfield, Elijah Mitchell

Read each row as: A.J. Brown, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Justin Jefferson 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 31, the whole-deal value gap runs -3.0% from the side that received A.J. Brown, so the side ending up with Justin Jefferson 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 Justin Jefferson 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 31 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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