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Is Deebo Samuel for Diontae Johnson fair?

Deebo Samuel and Diontae Johnson 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.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 5 times it was the Diontae Johnson 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 Deebo Samuel as the more valuable of the two.

23
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
0 / 5
One side sweetened: Deebo Samuel / Diontae Johnson

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 Deebo Samuel prices at 119 and Diontae Johnson at 1, so the market currently rates Deebo Samuel about 119.0x 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 Deebo SamuelWent with Diontae Johnson
2024-11-02+35%Tony PollardCedric Tillman, Javonte Williams
2024-09-19-33%1 1st
2024-09-04+19%Jonathon Brooks, Chris OlaveAmon-Ra St. Brown
2024-05-03+55%1 3rd
2024-03-14-41%Evan EngramStefon Diggs, 1 3rd
2023-11-02+59%1 2nd1 2nd, 1 3rd
2023-09-30+46%Daniel Bellinger, 1 3rd
2023-09-12-93%Clyde Edwards-HelaireBaker Mayfield, 2 1sts
2023-06-28+38%George PickensAmari Cooper, 1 3rd
2023-04-25+12%Cooper Kupp, Dallas Goedert, Josh JacobsJameson Williams, Kyren Williams, Jaylen Warren, 2 1sts, 2 2nds

Read each row as: Deebo Samuel, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Diontae Johnson 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 Deebo Samuel; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +19.0% from the side that received Deebo Samuel, so the side ending up with Deebo Samuel 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 Deebo Samuel for Diontae Johnson 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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