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Is Bryce Young for Joe Burrow fair?

Bryce Young and Joe Burrow 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 12 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 12 of those 12 times it was the Bryce Young 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 Joe Burrow as the more valuable of the two.

31
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
12 / 0
One side sweetened: Bryce Young / Joe Burrow

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 Bryce Young prices at 348 and Joe Burrow at 3,751, so the market currently rates Joe Burrow about 10.8x 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 Bryce YoungWent with Joe Burrow
2026-05-02-50%Oronde Gadsden, 1 2nd
2026-03-25-19%1 1st, 1 later pick
2025-11-25-28%Bo Nix, Chris Olave, 1 1st, 1 3rdTee Higgins, Khalil Shakir, C.J. Stroud
2025-09-26-104%Ray Davis, D'Andre SwiftJack Bech
2025-09-19-50%Dalton Kincaid, Courtland Sutton, J.K. DobbinsIsaac TeSlaa, 1 3rd
2025-09-15-32%Tetairoa McMillan, Aaron Rodgers
2025-06-12-22%Xavier Worthy, Emeka Egbuka, CeeDee Lamb, 1 1stJayden Reed, Alvin Kamara, Saquon Barkley, 1 more
2025-05-13-44%Sam LaPortaZach Ertz, Joe Mixon
2025-04-24-43%1 1stJalen Coker
2024-11-17-68%Bucky Irving, 1 1st, 1 2nd

Read each row as: Bryce Young, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Joe Burrow 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 Bryce Young; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 31, the whole-deal value gap runs -30.0% from the side that received Bryce Young, so the side ending up with Joe Burrow 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 Bryce Young for Joe Burrow 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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