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Is CeeDee Lamb for Ja'Marr Chase fair?

CeeDee Lamb and Ja'Marr Chase have been on opposite sides of 54 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. 4 of them were straight up: CeeDee Lamb for Ja'Marr Chase, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 12 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 10 of those 12 times it was the CeeDee Lamb side (2 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.

54
Deals they were both in
4
Straight up, one for one
10 / 2
One side sweetened: CeeDee Lamb / 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 CeeDee Lamb prices at 9,034 and Ja'Marr Chase at 10,232, so the market currently rates Ja'Marr Chase about 1.1x 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 CeeDee LambWent with Ja'Marr Chase
2026-07-25+26%Mike Evans, James CookTony Pollard, Parker Washington
2026-06-28+31%Rashee Rice, Terrance Ferguson, 1 1st, 1 3rdJayden Reed, T.J. Hockenson
2026-05-16-14%Derrick Henry, Dak PrescottAlec Pierce, Jaylen Warren, C.J. Stroud
2026-05-15+0%1 1st1 1st
2026-05-04-21%Chris Godwin, Zach Ertz, Tyrod Taylor, 16 more, 1 1st, 2 2nds, 1 later pickJacob Cowing, Sam Darnold, Isaiah Davis, 15 more, 1 3rd
2026-04-03+12%Bucky Irving, Nico CollinsGarrett Wilson
2025-10-09-37%Jayden Reed, DJ Giddens, Jaxson DartJoe Burrow
2025-07-01+27%Xavier Worthy, Dak Prescott, 1 2nd, 2 3rdsGeno Smith, 1 later pick
2025-04-25+27%Rashee Rice, Isaiah Bond, Jalen Hurts, 1 more, 2 3rdsTetairoa McMillan, Joe Burrow
2024-11-14+22%Blake Corum, 1 1st, 1 2ndJerry Jeudy, Chase Brown

Read each row as: CeeDee Lamb, 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 CeeDee Lamb; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 54, the whole-deal value gap runs -3.8% from the side that received CeeDee Lamb, so the side ending up with Ja'Marr Chase 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 CeeDee Lamb 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 54 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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