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Is Davante Adams for Jaylen Waddle fair?

Davante Adams and Jaylen Waddle have been on opposite sides of 36 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. 4 of them were straight up: Davante Adams for Jaylen Waddle, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 3 of those 4 times it was the Davante Adams 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 Jaylen Waddle as the more valuable of the two.

36
Deals they were both in
4
Straight up, one for one
3 / 1
One side sweetened: Davante Adams / Jaylen Waddle

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 Davante Adams prices at 1,064 and Jaylen Waddle at 4,624, so the market currently rates Jaylen Waddle about 4.3x 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 Davante AdamsWent with Jaylen Waddle
2025-11-23-17%Christian McCaffrey, Trevor LawrenceBo Nix, Travis Etienne, Kayshon Boutte, 1 3rd, 1 later pick
2025-11-01+48%Jalen Hurts, 1 2ndJared Goff, 1 3rd
2025-09-12-80%
2025-08-09-46%Alvin KamaraJaylen Warren, 1 3rd
2025-06-20-57%Dak Prescott, Christian McCaffrey, Nick ChubbDeVonta Smith, Breece Hall, Anthony Richardson
2025-05-09-106%
2025-05-07-63%James Conner
2024-11-20-92%Darnell Mooney
2024-11-07-70%Aaron Jones1 3rd, 1 later pick
2024-11-06-73%Aaron Jones, Will LevisJake Ferguson

Read each row as: Davante Adams, 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 Davante Adams; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 36, the whole-deal value gap runs -18.6% from the side that received Davante Adams, so the side ending up with Jaylen Waddle 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 Davante Adams 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 36 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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