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Is Chris Olave for Jaxon Smith-Njigba fair?

Chris Olave 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: Chris Olave for Jaxon Smith-Njigba, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 9 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 7 of those 9 times it was the Jaxon Smith-Njigba 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 Olave as the more valuable of the two.

25
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
2 / 7
One side sweetened: Chris Olave / 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 Chris Olave prices at 6,116 and Jaxon Smith-Njigba at 9,739, so the market currently rates Jaxon Smith-Njigba about 1.6x 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 OlaveWent with Jaxon Smith-Njigba
2026-07-02+0%Sam Darnold, Jaylen Waddle, Trey Benson, 16 more, 2 1stsKyle Pitts, Khalil Shakir, Devin Singletary, 16 more, 2 later picks
2026-05-25+18%Harold Fannin, Quinshon Judkins1 2nd
2025-09-05-26%Ricky Pearsall
2025-02-15-23%Dalton Kincaid, J.K. Dobbins, 1 1st, 1 3rdSam LaPorta, 2 2nds
2025-01-12+2%Marvin Harrison, Malik Nabers, Joe Mixon, 2 moreCeeDee Lamb, James Cook, Kenneth Walker, 1 more, 1 later pick
2024-11-21+60%Dalton Kincaid, Joshua Palmer, Zach CharbonnetZach Ertz, Davante Adams, Najee Harris, 1 3rd
2024-11-16+74%Marquise Brown
2024-11-10+78%
2024-10-25+62%Erick All
2024-10-17+57%1 3rd

Read each row as: Chris Olave, 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 Chris Olave; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 25, the whole-deal value gap runs +32.3% from the side that received Chris Olave, so the side ending up with Chris Olave 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 Olave 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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