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Is Baker Mayfield for Tua Tagovailoa fair?

Baker Mayfield and Tua Tagovailoa 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.

Most of those were larger deals with other pieces attached. 1 of them were straight up: Baker Mayfield for Tua Tagovailoa, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 4 of those 4 times it was the Baker Mayfield 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 Tua Tagovailoa as the more valuable of the two.

23
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
4 / 0
One side sweetened: Baker Mayfield / Tua Tagovailoa

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 Baker Mayfield prices at 714 and Tua Tagovailoa at 122, so the market currently rates Baker Mayfield about 5.9x 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 Baker MayfieldWent with Tua Tagovailoa
2026-07-18+25%George Pickens, De'Von AchaneBijan Robinson
2026-06-02+70%Dawson KnoxBrenton Strange
2026-05-23-16%Saquon Barkley, Sam DarnoldPuka Nacua
2025-09-17+9%Tyquan Thornton, Keaton MitchellOllie Gordon, 1 1st
2025-08-12-13%Christian McCaffrey, George KittleSam LaPorta, DK Metcalf, Kyren Williams
2025-08-01+63%Kyle TraskTerrance Ferguson, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2025-07-27+52%Rhamondre Stevenson, Isaiah LikelyMike Evans, Noah Gray
2025-07-07+23%Kyle Pitts, Jordan Love, Trey Benson, 17 more, 1 later pickJoe Milton, Jaylen Waddle, Jalen Nailor, 16 more
2025-06-09+22%1 2nd, 1 later pick1 1st, 1 3rd
2025-05-25+69%Jalen McMillan, Josh Jacobs, Jahmyr GibbsGeorge Pickens, Tank Dell, 3 1sts, 1 2nd, 1 later pick

Read each row as: Baker Mayfield, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Tua Tagovailoa 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 Baker Mayfield; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +8.8% from the side that received Baker Mayfield, so the side ending up with Baker Mayfield 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 Baker Mayfield for Tua Tagovailoa 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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