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Is Lamar Jackson for Russell Wilson fair?

Lamar Jackson and Russell Wilson have been on opposite sides of 26 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 6 of those 6 times it was the Russell Wilson 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 Lamar Jackson as the more valuable of the two.

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Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
0 / 6
One side sweetened: Lamar Jackson / Russell Wilson
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Lamar JacksonWent with Russell Wilson
2025-07-25+34%Jaxson Dart, Colston Loveland, Jameis Winston, 1 more, 1 2nd
2024-10-16+48%Ty ChandlerAaron Rodgers, 2 1sts, 2 3rds
2024-09-03+174%Zack Moss
2024-09-03+154%Justin Jefferson, James CookTyler Lockett, Chris Godwin, Nick Chubb, 2 more
2024-09-03+154%Justin Jefferson, James CookTyler Lockett, Chris Godwin, Nick Chubb, 2 more
2023-08-16-7%Miles Sanders, 1 2ndBijan Robinson
2023-07-23+2%Damien HarrisJared Goff, Dalvin Cook, 1 1st
2023-05-10-3%Joe Burrow, Rashod BatemanTyreek Hill, Cooper Kupp, Trevor Lawrence
2023-04-24+10%Tee Higgins, J.K. Dobbins, Malik Willis, 1 moreChristian McCaffrey, Cooper Kupp, Aaron Jones, 1 more, 1 3rd
2023-02-13-9%2 1sts

Read each row as: Lamar Jackson, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Russell Wilson 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 Lamar Jackson; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 26, the whole-deal value gap runs +8.7% from the side that received Lamar Jackson, so the side ending up with Lamar Jackson 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 Lamar Jackson for Russell Wilson 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 26 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