Trading a 1st for a QB in non- superflex is crazy. Maybe for Allen or Lamar but that's it.
I would say Burrow/Daniels are also worth a first.
If it was the Mahomes of old he'd be worth it but he hasn't been that fantasy stud for 2 seasons now. If I had a rock solid team and wanted to gamble on Mahomes coming back to fantasy stardom I could see it, but there are cheaper gambles to make in 1QB.
We use 6 pt TDs, maybe that is the difference. I have never liked not having a clear cut starter at QB. I would easily pay a first for Allen/Lamar/Daniels/Burrow. I find the advantage of consistency along with the upside of blow-up weeks a big advantage over streaming secondary starters (which I have never had good luck with). I hold Burrow and half the games he scored over 40 pts in my league, one over 60. Creates a big advantage in my league.
I agree in principle, but I couldn't help but notice you didn't list Mahomes or Dak or Herbert or Hurts here.
Which kind of points to the underlying issue. These guys have to be SO good to actually provide that advantage that they rarely repeat it, and the guys that are actually providing that advantage rotate in and out every couple of years.
2-3 years ago those guys above were the ones scoring the big points and guys like LJax and Burrow were kind of forgotten. Two years from now (likely much sooner) the guys in your list may very well end up the same and it will be someone else actually providing that advantage, probably Mahomes and Hurts again.
They just have to score SO many points to actually provide an advantage in 1qb that there is so little margin for error. We saw this all through the Brady/Peyton/Rodgers/Brees era. For a year or two Peyton and Brees would light it up and we'd forget about Brady and Rodgers. Then a few years later Brady would have a huge year and Peyton would have a few boring 4000/28 seasons and his value would plummet.
Josh Allen is really the only one that's consistently provided that advantage the last 3-4 years, though I worry that could drop off sharply as he nears 30 as a running QB with a violent running style that takes big hits. Mahomes had 3-4 elite years recently and then hit those margins and now is boring and middling for fantasy purposes.
With the way these guys rotate in and out almost predictably I actually like swapping between them and getting value back on top. Who will score more over the next 3 years between Mahomes and Allen? I would say it's 50/50 so I'd rather get out ahead of that typical rotation and take the value on top of Allen to rotate back into Mahomes shares while he's cheap, before he rejoins that group at the top again as Brees/Brady/Peyton/Rodgers rotated in and out of so many times during their careers.
Burrow seems like an obvious sell to me. Without rushing his margins are just so tiny. He runs way less than all the other guys (even the other pocket passers like Mahomes) so he has to throw for 5000 yards and 40+ TDs to be in that group, which just takes everything breaking perfectly on any given season. It took everything breaking absolutely perfectly for him to finish QB3 in what will probably be his career best season last year.