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Is Justin Herbert for Lamar Jackson fair?

Justin Herbert and Lamar Jackson have been on opposite sides of 60 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 15 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 10 of those 15 times it was the Justin Herbert side (5 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.

60
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
10 / 5
One side sweetened: Justin Herbert / 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 Justin Herbert prices at 3,160 and Lamar Jackson at 4,824, so the market currently rates Lamar Jackson about 1.5x 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 Justin HerbertWent with Lamar Jackson
2026-07-20+8%Drew Allar, Breece HallTravis Etienne
2026-06-26-23%Malik Nabers, 3 1stsChristian McCaffrey, George Pickens, Puka Nacua
2026-05-07-19%Geno Smith, Dontayvion Wicks, Jalen McMillan, 12 moreJayden Reed, Jalen Tolbert, Nico Collins, 10 more
2026-04-16+22%Woody Marks, Kaleb Johnson, 1 1st, 1 3rdDavante Adams, D'Andre Swift
2025-09-23-4%1 1st, 1 3rd1 2nd
2025-06-01+15%2 1stsMichael Pittman
2025-02-23+10%Jaylen Warren, Rashid Shaheed, Quentin Johnston, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 3 3rdsJoe Mixon, Zay Flowers
2024-10-20-63%Isaiah Likely, Rashid Shaheed, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rd, 2 later picksGeno Smith, Joe Burrow
2024-09-11-2%Cole Kmet, Chris Olave, Keaton Mitchell, 1 1st, 2 2nds, 2 3rds, 1 later pickKirk Cousins, Adam Thielen, Tyler Huntley, 2 more, 1 later pick
2024-07-27-8%Tank Dell, 1 2ndDavid Montgomery, 1 3rd

Read each row as: Justin Herbert, 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 Justin Herbert; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 60, the whole-deal value gap runs +1.1% from the side that received Justin Herbert - 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 Justin Herbert 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 60 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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