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Is Diontae Johnson for Marquise Brown fair?

Diontae Johnson and Marquise Brown have been on opposite sides of 27 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: Diontae Johnson for Marquise Brown, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 3 of those 5 times it was the Marquise Brown side (2 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Diontae Johnson as the more valuable of the two.

27
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
2 / 3
One side sweetened: Diontae Johnson / Marquise Brown

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 Diontae Johnson prices at 1 and Marquise Brown at 18, so the market currently rates Marquise Brown about 18.0x 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 Diontae JohnsonWent with Marquise Brown
2026-05-17+19%Cooper Rush, Ja'Marr Chase, Jalen Tolbert, 19 more, 1 2nd, 2 3rds, 1 later pickIsiah Pacheco, Sam LaPorta, Lamar Jackson, 15 more, 2 2nds, 2 3rds, 2 later picks
2025-07-07+23%Rachaad White, Brandin Cooks, D'Andre Swift, 12 more, 1 3rdJoe Milton, Jaylen Waddle, Tua Tagovailoa, 16 more
2024-10-31+157%Davante Adams, Mike EvansAlec Pierce, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2024-10-30-32%Geno Smith, 1 later pick1 1st, 1 3rd
2024-10-28+69%Malik Willis
2024-09-25-17%Jaleel McLaughlin, Rico DowdleAdonai Mitchell, Jermaine Burton
2023-10-11+20%1 3rd
2023-09-07+6%1 2nd
2023-07-25+30%Mark AndrewsT.J. Hockenson, 1 3rd, 1 later pick
2023-06-09-21%

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

The whole-deal margin

Across all 27, the whole-deal value gap runs +9.2% from the side that received Diontae Johnson, so the side ending up with Diontae Johnson 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 Diontae Johnson for Marquise Brown 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 27 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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