Justin Herbert and Patrick Mahomes have been on opposite sides of 53 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. 5 of them were straight up: Justin Herbert for Patrick Mahomes, nothing else changing hands.
This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 9 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 7 of those 9 times it was the Justin Herbert side (2 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Patrick Mahomes as the more valuable of the two.
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 Patrick Mahomes at 4,309, so the market currently rates Patrick Mahomes about 1.4x 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.
| Date | Margin | Went with Justin Herbert | Went with Patrick Mahomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | +2% | Jordan Addison | 1 2nd |
| 2025-10-19 | -49% | Quentin Johnston, 1 1st, 1 2nd | Theo Johnson, Xavier Worthy, Rico Dowdle, 1 more |
| 2025-08-23 | -16% | Jalen Royals, 1 3rd | — |
| 2025-08-04 | +0% | 1 1st | Jalen McMillan, 4 2nds |
| 2025-07-31 | +7% | Javonte Williams, C.J. Stroud, 1 3rd | Saquon Barkley, 1 2nd |
| 2025-06-19 | -55% | Taylor Heinicke, Bobby Okereke, Jerry Jeudy, 1 more, 1 later pick | DK Metcalf, Tyrel Dodson, Javonte Williams, 1 more |
| 2024-10-01 | -25% | 1 1st | Chase Brown |
| 2024-09-19 | +4% | Malik Nabers, C.J. Stroud | DJ Moore, Trevor Lawrence, Jordan Addison |
| 2024-08-01 | -14% | C.J. Stroud | Jayden Daniels |
| 2024-03-10 | -35% | Treylon Burks, Quentin Johnston, 1 1st | Drake London, 1 1st |
Read each row as: Justin Herbert, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Patrick Mahomes 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.
Across all 53, the whole-deal value gap runs -3.8% from the side that received Justin Herbert, so the side ending up with Patrick Mahomes has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.
A calculator answers “is Justin Herbert for Patrick Mahomes 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 53 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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