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Is Bo Nix for Justin Herbert fair?

Bo Nix and Justin Herbert have been on opposite sides of 24 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: Bo Nix for Justin Herbert, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 6 times it was the Bo Nix 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 Justin Herbert as the more valuable of the two.

24
Deals they were both in
2
Straight up, one for one
5 / 1
One side sweetened: Bo Nix / Justin Herbert

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 Bo Nix prices at 1,925 and Justin Herbert at 3,304, so the market currently rates Justin Herbert about 1.7x 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 2026-09-04.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Bo NixWent with Justin Herbert
2026-08-30-38%Jaylen Waddle, 2 1stsCeeDee Lamb, Kenneth Walker
2026-08-28-46%Jaylen Waddle, 1 1st, 2 2ndsCeeDee Lamb, Kenneth Walker
2026-08-01-32%1 1stRashee Rice
2026-07-26-58%
2026-06-11-23%Javonte WilliamsQuinshon Judkins
2026-05-08-22%Justin Fields
2025-11-22-5%T.J. Hockenson
2025-11-11-12%Daniel Jones, Jaxon Smith-NjigbaCedric Tillman, Jayden Daniels, 1 1st
2025-07-08-26%1 2nd
2025-07-04-16%Devin Singletary, Kayvon Thibodeaux, Marvin MimsCedric Tillman, Omar Speights, Taylor Heinicke

Read each row as: Bo Nix, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Justin Herbert 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 Bo Nix; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 24, the whole-deal value gap runs -22.8% from the side that received Bo Nix, so the side ending up with Justin Herbert 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 Bo Nix for Justin Herbert 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 24 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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