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Is Derrick Henry for Jaylen Waddle fair?

Derrick Henry and Jaylen Waddle have been on opposite sides of 26 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: Derrick Henry 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 4 of those 4 times it was the Jaylen Waddle side (0 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Derrick Henry as the more valuable of the two.

26
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
0 / 4
One side sweetened: Derrick Henry / 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 Derrick Henry prices at 1,621 and Jaylen Waddle at 4,624, so the market currently rates Jaylen Waddle about 2.9x 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 2026-07-24.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Derrick HenryWent with Jaylen Waddle
2026-05-16-11%Christian Watson, 1 1st, 1 3rdRico Dowdle, Kyren Williams
2026-02-12-20%Chris Olave, Parker Washington, 1 later pickMichael Penix, Rome Odunze, Hunter Henry
2025-10-30+14%Cooper Kupp, Aaron Jones, Kyler Murray, 1 moreOmarion Hampton, 1 1st
2025-10-11-23%Darren Waller, Courtland SuttonJameson Williams
2025-09-22-23%Jauan JenningsJaydon Blue, Kyle Monangai
2025-08-18-59%
2025-05-09-17%Lamar Jackson, Jahmyr GibbsRome Odunze, Chris Olave, C.J. Stroud, 2 1sts
2024-12-08-17%George Kittle, Saquon BarkleyDrake Maye, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rd, 1 later pick
2024-12-01-80%1 1st
2024-11-24-64%1 2nd

Read each row as: Derrick Henry, 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 Derrick Henry; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 26, the whole-deal value gap runs -19.6% from the side that received Derrick Henry, 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 Derrick Henry 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 26 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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