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Is Joe Mixon for Jonathan Taylor fair?

Joe Mixon and Jonathan Taylor have been on opposite sides of 38 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 9 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 9 of those 9 times it was the Joe Mixon 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 Jonathan Taylor as the more valuable of the two.

38
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
9 / 0
One side sweetened: Joe Mixon / 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 Mixon prices at 5 and Jonathan Taylor at 6,232, so the market currently rates Jonathan Taylor about 1246.4x 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 Joe MixonWent with Jonathan Taylor
2026-06-28+11%Darnell Mooney, Breece Hall, Christian Watson, 1 more, 1 2nd, 1 3rdTroy Franklin, Devin Neal, Courtland Sutton, 1 more
2025-09-28-8%Jarquez Hunter, Jaylin Noel, 2 1stsJoe Flacco, Chuba Hubbard
2025-02-22-17%Xavier Worthy, CeeDee Lamb, Bryce YoungJalen Hurts, Justin Fields, Drake London, 2 more
2024-05-09-60%Najee Harris
2024-03-19-35%Amari Cooper, Jared GoffAaron Rodgers, 1 3rd
2024-02-04-89%Geno Smith, Cooper Kupp, George Kittle, 4 moreJosh Allen, Mark Andrews, Nico Collins, 1 more, 2 1sts, 2 2nds
2024-02-03-7%Deebo Samuel, Jaxon Smith-NjigbaJerry Jeudy, Kayshon Boutte, 1 2nd
2023-09-22-88%Dalton Schultz, Gabe Davis, Treylon BurksTee Higgins
2023-09-21-92%James Conner
2023-08-30-81%1 1st

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

The whole-deal margin

Across all 38, the whole-deal value gap runs -27.8% from the side that received Joe Mixon, 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 Mixon 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 38 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