Bryce Young and Sam Darnold have been on opposite sides of 23 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.
In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 1 to 2 between the Bryce Young side and the Sam Darnold 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 Bryce Young prices at 365 and Sam Darnold at 431, so the market currently rates Sam Darnold about 1.2x 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.
| Date | Margin | Went with Bryce Young | Went with Sam Darnold |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-08 | +69% | Ladd McConkey | Wan'Dale Robinson |
| 2026-08-27 | +3% | Malik Washington, Ladd McConkey, Breece Hall, 1 more | Aaron Jones, A.J. Brown, Drake London, 1 more |
| 2026-08-04 | -8% | Travis Hunter | 1 2nd |
| 2026-06-27 | +8% | Tetairoa McMillan, Kenneth Walker, 1 1st | Ladd McConkey, Omarion Hampton, Kenny Gainwell |
| 2026-06-11 | -2% | Jared Goff, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Alec Pierce, 1 more, 2 2nds | Cam Ward, Jaylen Waddle, 2 1sts |
| 2026-04-03 | +48% | Rashee Rice, Tetairoa McMillan, Chuba Hubbard | Ray Davis, Quinn Ewers, 1 1st |
| 2026-03-15 | -3% | Gunnar Helm, Kenneth Walker, 2 3rds | Mark Andrews, Jaylen Waddle |
| 2026-01-16 | +31% | Jordan Addison | Chimere Dike |
| 2026-01-07 | +6% | Tetairoa McMillan, Chris Olave | Blake Corum, Nico Collins, Kyren Williams |
| 2025-12-07 | -25% | Mark Andrews, Trey McBride, George Pickens | Theo Johnson, Drake London, Tucker Kraft, 1 1st |
Read each row as: Bryce Young, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Sam Darnold 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.
Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +20.9% from the side that received Bryce Young, so the side ending up with Bryce Young 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 Bryce Young for Sam Darnold 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 23 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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