Christian McCaffrey and Jaylen Waddle have been on opposite sides of 28 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 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 4 of those 5 times it was the Jaylen Waddle 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 Christian McCaffrey as the more valuable of the two.
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 Christian McCaffrey prices at 4,381 and Jaylen Waddle at 4,624, so the market currently rates Jaylen Waddle about 1.1x 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.
| Date | Margin | Went with Christian McCaffrey | Went with Jaylen Waddle |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-23 | -17% | Davante Adams, Trevor Lawrence | Bo Nix, Travis Etienne, Kayshon Boutte, 1 3rd, 1 later pick |
| 2025-07-09 | +3% | Terrel Bernard | T.J. Edwards, George Karlaftis |
| 2025-06-20 | -57% | Davante Adams, Dak Prescott, Nick Chubb | DeVonta Smith, Breece Hall, Anthony Richardson |
| 2025-01-04 | -17% | Mike Evans, Michael Pittman | Chris Olave |
| 2024-12-07 | -17% | Tyrone Tracy, 1 2nd | 1 1st |
| 2024-11-04 | -2% | Cedric Tillman, Travis Kelce, Keenan Allen, 2 more | Dalton Kincaid, Drake London |
| 2024-09-05 | -2% | Isaac Guerendo, Garrett Wilson, Jordan Mason, 1 more, 1 1st | Tyler Allgeier, Bijan Robinson, 1 3rd |
| 2024-09-04 | +18% | — | 1 2nd |
| 2024-05-06 | -14% | Deebo Samuel | Kendre Miller, 1 1st |
| 2024-05-04 | -19% | Tyreek Hill, Baker Mayfield, 1 2nd | Jordan Love, Jonathan Taylor |
Read each row as: Christian McCaffrey, 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 Christian McCaffrey; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 28, the whole-deal value gap runs -2.5% from the side that received Christian McCaffrey - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.
A calculator answers “is Christian McCaffrey 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 28 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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