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Is Cole Kmet for Darren Waller fair?

Cole Kmet and Darren Waller have been on opposite sides of 24 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.

In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 1 between the Cole Kmet side and the Darren Waller side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

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Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
2 / 1
One side sweetened: Cole Kmet / Darren Waller

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 Cole Kmet prices at 16 and Darren Waller at 8, so the market currently rates Cole Kmet about 2.0x 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 2026-09-04.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Cole KmetWent with Darren Waller
2025-10-08+181%Travis EtienneTyquan Thornton
2024-05-07-52%Khalil Shakir, 2 3rdsGeorge Kittle, 1 3rd
2023-12-09+37%Derrick Henry, Joe Mixon, Deebo SamuelAntonio Gibson, K.J. Osborn, Kenny Pickett, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rd, 2 later picks
2023-12-01-67%1 1st, 1 2nd
2023-09-16-56%Damien Harris, 1 3rdDevin Singletary
2023-08-31-36%1 3rd
2023-08-27-6%Joshua Palmer, Tank Bigsby, 1 later pickGabe Davis, Sean Tucker, 1 3rd
2023-08-22-24%2 3rds
2023-08-01+2%Breece Hall, 4 2ndsLuke Schoonmaker, Saquon Barkley, 1 1st
2023-07-26-22%Jordan Love, Christian WatsonDaniel Jones, Terry McLaurin, 1 2nd

Read each row as: Cole Kmet, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Darren Waller 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 Cole Kmet; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 24, the whole-deal value gap runs -17.3% from the side that received Cole Kmet, so the side ending up with Darren Waller 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 Cole Kmet for Darren Waller 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 24 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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