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Is Darren Waller for Pat Freiermuth fair?

Darren Waller and Pat Freiermuth 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.

Most of those were larger deals with other pieces attached. 1 of them were straight up: Darren Waller for Pat Freiermuth, nothing else changing hands.

In 2 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 0 to 2 between the Darren Waller side and the Pat Freiermuth side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

28
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
0 / 2
One side sweetened: Darren Waller / Pat Freiermuth

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 Darren Waller prices at 6 and Pat Freiermuth at 89, so the market currently rates Pat Freiermuth about 14.8x 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 Darren WallerWent with Pat Freiermuth
2023-10-25-54%
2023-10-05-35%Alvin Kamara, Drake London, Alec Pierce, 1 3rdDK Metcalf, Javonte Williams, Aaron Rodgers, 1 later pick
2023-09-27-73%Mike Evans, 1 2ndJordan Addison
2023-09-20+42%DK Metcalf, 1 2ndElijah Moore, 1 1st
2023-09-16-36%1 3rd1 later pick
2023-09-13+22%Nick Chubb1 1st, 1 2nd
2023-07-13-44%Chase BrownTyquan Thornton
2023-06-15-131%1 later pickTyler Boyd, Marquise Brown
2023-06-12-10%Matthew Stafford, Baker Mayfield, Dalton Schultz, 3 more, 1 3rdDeVante Parker, Sam Darnold, Parris Campbell, 4 more, 1 3rd, 1 later pick
2023-06-09+62%Jaylen Waddle, 1 1stAlexander Mattison, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rd

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

The whole-deal margin

Across all 28, the whole-deal value gap runs +9.2% from the side that received Darren Waller, 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 Darren Waller for Pat Freiermuth 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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