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Is Brandon Aiyuk for Jaxon Smith-Njigba fair?

Brandon Aiyuk and Jaxon Smith-Njigba have been on opposite sides of 25 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: Brandon Aiyuk for Jaxon Smith-Njigba, nothing else changing hands.

In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 1 between the Brandon Aiyuk side and the Jaxon Smith-Njigba side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

25
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
2 / 1
One side sweetened: Brandon Aiyuk / Jaxon Smith-Njigba

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 Brandon Aiyuk prices at 880 and Jaxon Smith-Njigba at 9,739, so the market currently rates Jaxon Smith-Njigba about 11.1x 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 Brandon AiyukWent with Jaxon Smith-Njigba
2025-07-12-4%Jayden Reed, Saquon Barkley, DK Metcalf, 1 2ndJonathon Brooks, Chuba Hubbard, Drake London
2025-06-19+12%1 1st, 2 3rdsRicky Pearsall
2025-05-30+16%Rashid Shaheed, 2 1sts, 1 2ndRicky Pearsall, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2025-04-19+59%Terry McLaurin, Tee Higgins, Isiah PachecoXavier Legette, Ricky Pearsall
2024-11-22+51%Jonathon Brooks, Joe BurrowJustin Herbert, J.K. Dobbins
2024-10-25+72%1 1stRicky Pearsall
2024-10-25+56%Isaiah LikelyChig Okonkwo
2024-10-22+50%1 2nd1 3rd, 1 later pick
2024-10-22+48%Quentin JohnstonKimani Vidal
2024-10-22+46%1 2nd, 1 3rd

Read each row as: Brandon Aiyuk, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jaxon Smith-Njigba 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 Brandon Aiyuk; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 25, the whole-deal value gap runs +21.3% from the side that received Brandon Aiyuk, so the side ending up with Brandon Aiyuk 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 Brandon Aiyuk for Jaxon Smith-Njigba 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 25 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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