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Is Deshaun Watson for Justin Fields fair?

Deshaun Watson and Justin Fields 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: Deshaun Watson for Justin Fields, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 10 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 7 of those 10 times it was the Justin Fields side (3 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Deshaun Watson as the more valuable of the two.

36
Deals they were both in
4
Straight up, one for one
3 / 7
One side sweetened: Deshaun Watson / Justin Fields

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 Deshaun Watson prices at 37 and Justin Fields at 30, so the market currently rates Deshaun Watson about 1.2x 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 Deshaun WatsonWent with Justin Fields
2026-03-19-173%Noah Fant
2025-05-19+24%DJ Moore, Juwan Johnson, 1 3rdRussell Wilson, Javonte Williams, 1 later pick
2024-08-25+67%Zach Ertz, 1 3rdColby Parkinson, 1 2nd
2024-08-06+77%Sam Howell1 2nd
2024-07-08+49%Michael Pittman, 1 1stBrock Bowers, Matthew Stafford
2024-05-22-172%JuJu Smith-Schuster, Antonio Gibson, 2 1sts
2024-04-30+38%1 2nd1 2nd
2024-02-18+2%Elijah Moore, Zach Evans, 1 2nd, 1 3rdJaylen Warren
2023-11-29-65%Jaylen Warren, 1 3rdKendre Miller, 1 later pick
2023-11-19-70%Hunter Henry, Daniel Jones

Read each row as: Deshaun Watson, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Justin Fields 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 Deshaun Watson; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 36, the whole-deal value gap runs -22.6% from the side that received Deshaun Watson, so the side ending up with Justin Fields 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 Deshaun Watson for Justin Fields 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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