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Is David Njoku for Jake Ferguson fair?

David Njoku and Jake Ferguson have been on opposite sides of 21 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: David Njoku for Jake Ferguson, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 7 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 7 times it was the David Njoku side (2 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Jake Ferguson as the more valuable of the two.

21
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
5 / 2
One side sweetened: David Njoku / Jake Ferguson

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 David Njoku prices at 59 and Jake Ferguson at 641, so the market currently rates Jake Ferguson about 10.9x 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 David NjokuWent with Jake Ferguson
2026-04-11+4%Rashee Rice, Michael Wilson, Tank Bigsby, 2 1sts, 1 2ndBucky Irving, Ricky Pearsall, Jaylen Waddle, 1 more, 2 3rds
2025-11-25+136%1 1st
2025-11-22+58%1 2nd
2025-10-27+65%Joe Mixon, Alvin Kamara2 later picks
2025-09-29+121%1 1st
2025-05-26+78%1 2nd
2025-03-25+93%Darnell WashingtonBrenton Strange
2024-11-18-12%Drake LondonJonathan Taylor, Tyler Goodson, 1 2nd
2024-11-11-4%Ray-Ray McCloud
2024-10-13+24%Erick All, Luke McCaffrey, 1 2nd, 1 3rdEmanuel Wilson

Read each row as: David Njoku, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jake Ferguson 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 David Njoku; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs +40.0% from the side that received David Njoku, so the side ending up with David Njoku 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 David Njoku for Jake Ferguson 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 21 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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