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Is Jayden Daniels for Lamar Jackson fair?

Jayden Daniels and Lamar Jackson 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: Jayden Daniels for Lamar Jackson, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 8 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 8 of those 8 times it was the Jayden Daniels 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 Lamar Jackson as the more valuable of the two.

27
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
8 / 0
One side sweetened: Jayden Daniels / Lamar Jackson

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 Jayden Daniels prices at 4,581 and Lamar Jackson at 4,824, so the market currently rates Lamar Jackson about 1.1x 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 Jayden DanielsWent with Lamar Jackson
2026-06-21-18%
2026-06-19-14%1 1stQuinshon Judkins
2026-06-16-8%Malik Nabers, Germie Bernard, Zachariah Branch, 2 moreLuther Burden, Chris Godwin, Rachaad White, 2 more
2026-06-15-16%Makai Lemon, KC ConcepcionChuba Hubbard, George Pickens
2026-06-13-14%Tetairoa McMillan, 2 1sts, 1 2ndJonathan Taylor, Bijan Robinson, 2 later picks
2026-06-12-25%Mike Evans, Tyreek Hill, Deebo Samuel1 1st
2026-04-17+9%Tetairoa McMillan, 1 1st, 2 2nds, 1 3rdEmeka Egbuka, Derrick Henry, Chris Godwin, 1 more
2025-11-15-9%Ricky Pearsall, Marcus Mariota, 1 1stMalik Willis, 1 3rd
2025-11-08-22%1 2nd, 1 3rd
2025-11-05+25%Garrett WilsonJauan Jennings

Read each row as: Jayden Daniels, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Lamar Jackson 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 Jayden Daniels; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 27, the whole-deal value gap runs -13.5% from the side that received Jayden Daniels, so the side ending up with Lamar Jackson 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 Jayden Daniels for Lamar Jackson 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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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