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Is Chris Godwin for Jaylen Waddle fair?

Chris Godwin and Jaylen Waddle have been on opposite sides of 32 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 7 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 6 of those 7 times it was the Chris Godwin 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 Jaylen Waddle as the more valuable of the two.

32
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
6 / 1
One side sweetened: Chris Godwin / Jaylen Waddle

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 Chris Godwin prices at 757 and Jaylen Waddle at 4,624, so the market currently rates Jaylen Waddle about 6.1x 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 Chris GodwinWent with Jaylen Waddle
2026-05-04-21%CeeDee Lamb, Zach Ertz, Tyrod Taylor, 16 more, 1 1st, 2 2nds, 1 later pickJacob Cowing, Sam Darnold, Isaiah Davis, 15 more, 1 3rd
2026-03-21-44%DK Metcalf, 1 3rd1 2nd
2025-11-18-8%Braelon Allen, 1 1st
2025-10-30+24%Jayden Higgins, 1 1stElijah Arroyo, Kyle Monangai, 1 3rd
2025-07-24+14%Rashee Rice, Amon-Ra St. BrownRoman Wilson, Brock Purdy, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2025-05-03-10%Rome Odunze, Patrick Mahomes, D'Andre Swift, 1 moreKirk Cousins, Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, 1 more
2025-05-01-38%Geno Smith, Tank BigsbyJonnu Smith
2024-11-22-39%1 1st, 1 3rdTerry McLaurin
2024-11-10-88%Evan Engram, Trevor LawrenceKirk Cousins, Rashid Shaheed
2024-10-25-57%Deshaun Watson, Brenton StrangeDalton Schultz, Will Levis

Read each row as: Chris Godwin, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jaylen Waddle 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 Chris Godwin; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 32, the whole-deal value gap runs -27.6% from the side that received Chris Godwin, so the side ending up with Jaylen Waddle 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 Chris Godwin for Jaylen Waddle 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 32 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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