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Is Joe Burrow for Jonathan Taylor fair?

Joe Burrow and Jonathan Taylor have been on opposite sides of 22 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.

In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 0 to 3 between the Joe Burrow side and the Jonathan Taylor side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

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Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
0 / 3
One side sweetened: Joe Burrow / 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 Joe Burrow prices at 3,751 and Jonathan Taylor at 6,232, so the market currently rates Jonathan Taylor about 1.7x 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 Joe BurrowWent with Jonathan Taylor
2026-06-27+4%Ashton Jeanty, DJ MooreLamar Jackson, Javonte Williams
2025-09-12-8%2 1sts
2025-07-07+12%Dak Prescott
2025-06-10-14%Kyren WilliamsJustin Herbert, 1 2nd
2024-08-09+20%1 3rdMatthew Stafford, Zach Charbonnet
2024-05-13-3%Derrick Henry, Jake BrowningAdonai Mitchell, Dak Prescott, 1 2nd
2023-11-21+52%Baker Mayfield, Jahan DotsonDalton Kincaid, Chris Godwin, Matthew Stafford
2023-11-20+1%Jake Ferguson, De'Von Achane, 1 1stGeorge Kittle, Dallas Goedert, Tua Tagovailoa
2023-11-18+5%Nico CollinsDak Prescott
2023-07-28-25%2 1sts

Read each row as: Joe Burrow, 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 Joe Burrow; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 22, the whole-deal value gap runs -5.5% from the side that received Joe Burrow, 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 Joe Burrow 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 22 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