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Is Drake Maye for Trevor Lawrence fair?

Drake Maye and Trevor Lawrence have been on opposite sides of 24 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: Drake Maye for Trevor Lawrence, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 3 of those 4 times it was the Trevor Lawrence 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 Drake Maye as the more valuable of the two.

24
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
1 / 3
One side sweetened: Drake Maye / Trevor Lawrence

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 5,337 and Trevor Lawrence at 2,757, so the market currently rates Drake Maye about 1.9x 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 2026-09-04.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Drake MayeWent with Trevor Lawrence
2026-09-09-56%Parker WashingtonTetairoa McMillan, Makai Lemon
2026-09-08+55%Jakobi Meyers, 1 2ndOronde Gadsden, 1 2nd
2026-08-29-39%Marvin Harrison, Wan'Dale Robinson
2026-08-10-40%Barrett Carter, 1 3rd, 1 later pickJared Goff, Devin Lloyd, 1 2nd
2026-05-30-9%1 3rdJayden Higgins, 1 2nd
2026-04-05+35%Kyle PittsColston Loveland
2025-10-08+5%J.J. McCarthy, George Kittle2 1sts, 3 2nds
2025-10-01-38%Mason Taylor, Jordan AddisonTre' Harris, T.J. Hockenson, Zay Flowers, 1 2nd
2025-09-30-8%Justice HillMark Andrews, Tyler Allgeier, 1 3rd
2025-09-24-0%J.K. Dobbins, Puka NacuaQuinshon Judkins, Tyler Warren, Travis Hunter, 1 3rd

Read each row as: Drake Maye, 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 Drake Maye; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 24, the whole-deal value gap runs -13.8% from the side that received Drake Maye, 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 Drake Maye 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 24 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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