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Is Chris Godwin for Josh Jacobs fair?

Chris Godwin and Josh Jacobs 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. 2 of them were straight up: Chris Godwin for Josh Jacobs, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 3 of those 5 times it was the Josh Jacobs side (2 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Chris Godwin as the more valuable of the two.

23
Deals they were both in
2
Straight up, one for one
2 / 3
One side sweetened: Chris Godwin / Josh Jacobs

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 Josh Jacobs at 1,583, so the market currently rates Josh Jacobs about 2.1x 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 Josh Jacobs
2025-05-28-16%David Njoku, 1 2nd1 3rd
2025-01-14+27%Kenneth Walker, Tucker Kraft, 1 1st1 1st
2025-01-12+77%Jacob Cowing, T.J. Hockenson, Patrick Mahomes, 20 more, 2 3rds, 1 later pickJauan Jennings, Tua Tagovailoa, Michael Wilson, 15 more, 1 later pick
2024-11-09+28%Brandon AiyukDavid Njoku
2024-11-02-24%Bucky Irving
2024-10-26+9%1 1st, 1 later pickDeebo Samuel
2024-10-12-41%1 3rd, 1 later pick
2023-06-12+24%Jonathan Taylor, Chris OlaveA.J. Brown, Isaiah Likely, 1 2nd, 1 later pick
2023-03-23+61%Jonathan TaylorRashee Rice, Gerald Everett, Calvin Ridley, 1 3rd, 2 later picks
2023-01-17-19%

Read each row as: Chris Godwin, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Josh Jacobs 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 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +23.5% from the side that received Chris Godwin, so the side ending up with Chris Godwin 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 Josh Jacobs 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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Values from DynastyProcess and nflverse. Trades from public Sleeper leagues. When the data will not support a fair grade I leave it out and say so. Is this trade fair? · All players · Privacy · Terms