Lamar Jackson and Sam Darnold have been on opposite sides of 23 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 5 of those 6 times it was the Sam Darnold side (1 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.
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 Lamar Jackson prices at 4,824 and Sam Darnold at 431, so the market currently rates Lamar Jackson about 11.2x 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 2026-09-04.
| Date | Margin | Went with Lamar Jackson | Went with Sam Darnold |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-06 | +67% | Alec Pierce | Colston Loveland |
| 2026-05-10 | +73% | — | 1 1st |
| 2026-05-07 | +19% | Jayden Reed, Jalen Tolbert, Nico Collins, 10 more | Jerry Jeudy, Dak Prescott, Jauan Jennings, 7 more |
| 2026-03-29 | +33% | 2 2nds | Quentin Johnston, 2 1sts |
| 2026-03-13 | +40% | Xavier Worthy, Javonte Williams, 1 1st | Woody Marks, Michael Pittman, 1 1st, 1 2nd |
| 2026-02-18 | -1% | Brian Thomas, Pat Bryant, J.K. Dobbins, 1 more | A.J. Brown, Nico Collins, Javonte Williams, 1 more |
| 2025-12-28 | +33% | George Kittle, Rashod Bateman, 1 later pick | Bucky Irving, Rhamondre Stevenson, Josh Downs |
| 2025-11-24 | -22% | — | Ladd McConkey, Jalen Milroe, 2 1sts, 1 2nd |
| 2025-06-13 | +54% | Tyreek Hill | Chris Godwin, Brandon Aiyuk, Rachaad White, 1 more, 1 2nd |
| 2025-03-24 | -19% | Mike Evans, Khalil Herbert, Isaiah Likely | Jalen Coker, CeeDee Lamb, Kyren Williams |
Read each row as: Lamar Jackson, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Sam Darnold 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.
Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +26.0% 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.
A calculator answers “is Lamar Jackson for Sam Darnold 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 23 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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