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Is David Montgomery for Josh Jacobs fair?

David Montgomery and Josh Jacobs 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.

Most of those were larger deals with other pieces attached. 1 of them were straight up: David Montgomery for Josh Jacobs, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 8 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 8 of those 8 times it was the David Montgomery 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 Josh Jacobs as the more valuable of the two.

31
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
8 / 0
One side sweetened: David Montgomery / Josh Jacobs

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 Josh Jacobs at 1,583, so the market currently rates Josh Jacobs about 1.5x 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 Josh Jacobs
2026-06-02-22%DK MetcalfJa'Tavion Sanders, Jakobi Meyers
2026-04-04-131%Matthew GoldenMichael Wilson, Quentin Johnston, 1 later pick
2026-03-20-1%Jerry Jeudy, 2 1sts, 1 2ndCeeDee Lamb
2026-02-14-6%Emeka Egbuka, 1 2ndRashee Rice, Emanuel Wilson
2025-11-06-33%Travis Hunter, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rdNico Collins
2025-10-30-100%Cade Otton, 1 3rd
2025-07-07-21%Mike Evans, Rico Dowdle, 1 1st, 1 2ndRome Odunze, 1 3rd
2025-05-05-8%Kyler Murray, 1 3rdTrevor Lawrence
2024-04-29-20%1 1st, 1 2ndSaquon Barkley, 1 3rd
2024-04-29+57%1 1st1 later pick

Read each row as: David Montgomery, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Josh Jacobs 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 31, the whole-deal value gap runs -16.2% from the side that received David Montgomery, so the side ending up with Josh Jacobs 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 Josh Jacobs 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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Values from DynastyProcess and nflverse. Trades from public Sleeper leagues. When the data will not support a fair grade I leave it out and say so. Is this trade fair? · All players · Privacy · Terms