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Is J.K. Dobbins for Jonathan Taylor fair?

J.K. Dobbins and Jonathan Taylor have been on opposite sides of 42 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 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 6 times it was the J.K. Dobbins 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 Jonathan Taylor as the more valuable of the two.

42
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
5 / 1
One side sweetened: J.K. Dobbins / Jonathan Taylor

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 J.K. Dobbins prices at 291 and Jonathan Taylor at 6,232, so the market currently rates Jonathan Taylor about 21.4x 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 J.K. DobbinsWent with Jonathan Taylor
2026-05-03-18%Drake London, Khalil Shakir, 1 1st, 1 later pickDJ Moore, Jakobi Meyers, 1 1st, 1 3rd
2025-09-30-42%Rome Odunze, 1 1stBrian Thomas
2025-08-09-10%Mike Evans, Jaylen WaddleKhalil Shakir
2025-08-07-106%George Pickens, 1 2nd1 1st
2025-08-07-97%Jakobi Meyers, Elijah Mitchell, Pat Freiermuth, 3 1sts, 3 2ndsBrock Bowers, CeeDee Lamb
2025-06-28-86%Justin FieldsWan'Dale Robinson, 1 2nd
2025-05-24-58%TreVeyon Henderson, Stefon Diggs, Deebo Samuel, 1 more, 1 later pickTrey Benson, Amari Cooper, Khalil Herbert, 1 more
2025-04-25-20%Sam Darnold, DJ MooreTank Dell
2024-11-27-37%Brian Thomas, 1 3rdGeorge Pickens
2024-09-21-42%Sam LaPorta, Gus EdwardsBrandon Aiyuk, 1 2nd

Read each row as: J.K. Dobbins, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jonathan Taylor 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 J.K. Dobbins; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 42, the whole-deal value gap runs -42.7% from the side that received J.K. Dobbins, so the side ending up with Jonathan Taylor 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 J.K. Dobbins for Jonathan Taylor 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 42 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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