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Is Drake Maye for Joe Burrow fair?

Drake Maye and Joe Burrow have been on opposite sides of 26 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. 2 of them were straight up: Drake Maye for Joe Burrow, nothing else changing hands.

In 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 3 to 3 between the Drake Maye side and the Joe Burrow side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

26
Deals they were both in
2
Straight up, one for one
3 / 3
One side sweetened: Drake Maye / Joe Burrow

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 Drake Maye prices at 5,633 and Joe Burrow at 3,751, so the market currently rates Drake Maye 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 Drake MayeWent with Joe Burrow
2026-06-09-87%Justin Jefferson
2026-05-29-46%C.J. Stroud, 1 2ndMichael Wilson, Justin Herbert, Parker Washington
2026-05-02-34%DK MetcalfTravis Etienne
2026-05-01-64%RJ Harvey2 1sts
2026-04-10-17%Luther Burden, Kyle Williams, 1 1stBucky Irving, Tyrone Tracy, Evan Engram, 2 more
2026-02-23+14%Woody Marks, Wan'Dale Robinson, 1 2nd, 1 3rd, 1 later pickCam Skattebo, Parker Washington
2026-01-20-54%1 1st
2025-10-20-26%Quinshon JudkinsBhayshul Tuten, Kaleb Johnson, 2 2nds
2025-10-18-30%Joe Flacco, Stefon Diggs, CeeDee Lamb, 1 more, 1 later pickCam Skattebo, Matthew Golden, Ashton Jeanty, 1 1st
2025-10-01-48%1 2nd

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

The whole-deal margin

Across all 26, the whole-deal value gap runs -32.5% from the side that received Drake Maye, so the side ending up with Joe Burrow 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 Drake Maye for Joe Burrow 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 26 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