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Is Ja'Marr Chase for Zay Flowers fair?

Ja'Marr Chase and Zay Flowers 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 7 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 7 of those 7 times it was the Zay Flowers 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 Ja'Marr Chase as the more valuable of the two.

23
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
0 / 7
One side sweetened: Ja'Marr Chase / Zay Flowers

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 Ja'Marr Chase prices at 10,232 and Zay Flowers at 4,229, so the market currently rates Ja'Marr Chase about 2.4x 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 Ja'Marr ChaseWent with Zay Flowers
2025-10-30+0%Malik Nabers
2025-07-22+17%2 1sts, 2 2nds
2025-05-17-13%2 2ndsLadd McConkey, Sam Darnold, 1 1st
2025-05-09+19%Chris Godwin, Josh Allen, Brandon Aiyuk, 1 moreChris Olave, Marvin Mims, 4 1sts, 3 2nds, 1 3rd, 1 later pick
2024-11-27+7%Cooper Rush2 1sts, 1 later pick
2024-08-31-9%Colby Parkinson, 1 2ndTravis Etienne, 1 1st, 1 3rd
2024-07-12-23%Jonathan Taylor, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2024-06-27+46%Trey Sermon, Noah Gray, George Pickens, 1 2nd
2024-06-23+15%Deshaun Watson, Evan Engram, Jonathan TaylorNico Collins, Anthony Richardson, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2024-06-02-2%Trevor LawrenceLamar Jackson, Diontae Johnson, 1 1st

Read each row as: Ja'Marr Chase, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Zay Flowers 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 Ja'Marr Chase; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +2.8% from the side that received Ja'Marr Chase - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is Ja'Marr Chase for Zay Flowers 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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