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Is David Montgomery for Joe Mixon fair?

David Montgomery and Joe Mixon have been on opposite sides of 22 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 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 4 of those 5 times it was the David Montgomery 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 Joe Mixon as the more valuable of the two.

22
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
4 / 1
One side sweetened: David Montgomery / Joe Mixon

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 David Montgomery prices at 1,085 and Joe Mixon at 5, so the market currently rates David Montgomery about 217.0x 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 David MontgomeryWent with Joe Mixon
2025-05-11+12%1 2nd
2025-04-19-18%Bo Nix, Justin Jefferson, Isaiah LikelyMalik Nabers, C.J. Stroud, 1 1st
2024-12-17+7%1 3rd
2024-10-30-20%Terry McLaurin1 1st
2024-07-17-22%Jaylen Wright, Tyler BoydDevin Singletary
2024-01-16-3%DK Metcalf, Kyren WilliamsJustin Jefferson
2023-09-19-60%Russell Wilson, Cam Akers, 1 2ndDeshaun Watson
2023-07-28+12%1 2nd, 1 3rdVan Jefferson
2023-04-23-47%T.J. Hockenson, Jahan Dotson, Skyy MooreMarquise Brown, A.J. Brown, KJ Hamler
2023-03-08+22%1 2nd

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

The whole-deal margin

Across all 22, the whole-deal value gap runs -15.9% from the side that received David Montgomery, so the side ending up with Joe Mixon 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 David Montgomery for Joe Mixon 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 22 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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