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Is CeeDee Lamb for Joe Burrow fair?

CeeDee Lamb and Joe Burrow have been on opposite sides of 40 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. 1 of them were straight up: CeeDee Lamb for Joe Burrow, nothing else changing hands.

In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 3 to 0 between the CeeDee Lamb side and the Joe Burrow side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

40
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
3 / 0
One side sweetened: CeeDee Lamb / 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 CeeDee Lamb prices at 9,034 and Joe Burrow at 3,751, so the market currently rates CeeDee Lamb about 2.4x 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 Joe Burrow
2026-04-07+0%George Kittle, Jake Tonges, C.J. StroudGarrett Wilson, Rashid Shaheed
2025-10-31-6%Dak Prescott, 1 2ndJaylen Waddle, 1 1st
2025-10-18-30%Drake Maye, Joe Flacco, Stefon Diggs, 1 more, 1 later pickCam Skattebo, Matthew Golden, Ashton Jeanty, 1 1st
2025-10-12-4%Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Patrick MahomesAshton Jeanty, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2025-10-09-37%Jayden Reed, DJ Giddens, Jaxson DartJa'Marr Chase
2025-10-07-7%1 2ndNico Collins
2025-09-30-4%Christian KirkTrey Benson
2025-06-12-22%Xavier Worthy, Emeka Egbuka, Bryce Young, 1 1stJayden Reed, Alvin Kamara, Saquon Barkley, 1 more
2025-04-27+2%Tyler Lockett, Calvin Ridley, Will Levis1 2nd, 1 later pick
2025-04-25+27%Rashee Rice, Isaiah Bond, Jalen Hurts, 1 more, 2 3rdsTetairoa McMillan, Ja'Marr Chase

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

The whole-deal margin

Across all 40, the whole-deal value gap runs +1.6% from the side that received CeeDee Lamb - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is CeeDee Lamb 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 40 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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