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Is Derek Carr for Trevor Lawrence fair?

Derek Carr and Trevor Lawrence have been on opposite sides of 25 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 9 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 8 of those 9 times it was the Derek Carr 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 Trevor Lawrence as the more valuable of the two.

25
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
8 / 1
One side sweetened: Derek Carr / Trevor Lawrence
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Derek CarrWent with Trevor Lawrence
2025-04-20-20%Jayden Reed, Chuba Hubbard
2025-01-12+2%Chris Olave
2024-09-19-144%Spencer Rattler, Adonai Mitchell, 2 2ndsDJ Moore
2024-07-29-50%Aaron Rodgers, 1 1st
2024-07-06+12%Garrett WilsonTyjae Spears
2024-04-30+13%Dawson Knox, Zamir White, Jordan Addison, 1 1stChristian Kirk, Zack Moss
2024-02-14+40%Kyren Williams, Tank Dell
2023-12-27-12%Brandon Aiyuk, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2023-12-19-44%Travis Kelce, Davante AdamsA.T. Perry
2023-10-11-50%Tyreek Hill, De'Von AchaneTerry McLaurin, Travis Etienne

Read each row as: Derek Carr, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Trevor Lawrence 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 Derek Carr; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 25, the whole-deal value gap runs -12.4% from the side that received Derek Carr, so the side ending up with Trevor Lawrence 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 Derek Carr for Trevor Lawrence 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 25 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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