Darren Waller and T.J. Hockenson 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 T.J. Hockenson, nothing else changing hands.
In 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 3 to 3 between the Darren Waller side and the T.J. Hockenson side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.
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 T.J. Hockenson at 197, so the market currently rates T.J. Hockenson about 32.8x 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.
| Date | Margin | Went with Darren Waller | Went with T.J. Hockenson |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-10 | +154% | 1 2nd | — |
| 2025-10-04 | +17% | Deebo Samuel, Terry McLaurin, Travis Etienne, 1 more | TreVeyon Henderson, Christian Watson, 1 3rd |
| 2024-04-07 | +56% | Joe Flacco, Sam Darnold, 1 1st, 1 later pick | — |
| 2024-04-06 | -54% | Jameson Williams, C.J. Stroud, 2 2nds | A.J. Brown, Trevor Lawrence, Brock Purdy |
| 2024-01-22 | -58% | Jonnu Smith, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 later pick | Tyler Boyd, Rhamondre Stevenson |
| 2023-09-25 | +48% | DJ Moore, 1 1st | 1 2nd, 1 3rd |
| 2023-09-19 | +50% | Tyler Lockett, Jahan Dotson | — |
| 2023-08-30 | -50% | Diontae Johnson, Rashid Shaheed | Trey Palmer, Jalin Hyatt |
| 2023-05-18 | +41% | Dalton Schultz, Brock Purdy, 2 1sts, 1 2nd | Derek Carr, Aaron Jones, 1 3rd |
| 2023-04-30 | -8% | Darnell Mooney, 1 1st, 1 3rd, 1 later pick | Robert Woods, Chris Godwin |
Read each row as: Darren Waller, plus anything in the third column, was traded for T.J. Hockenson 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.
Across all 28, the whole-deal value gap runs +17.6% 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.
A calculator answers “is Darren Waller for T.J. Hockenson 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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