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Is Deshaun Watson for Kyler Murray fair?

Deshaun Watson and Kyler Murray have been on opposite sides of 54 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 Kyler Murray, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 17 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 13 of those 17 times it was the Deshaun Watson side (4 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Kyler Murray as the more valuable of the two.

54
Deals they were both in
4
Straight up, one for one
13 / 4
One side sweetened: Deshaun Watson / Kyler Murray

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 35 and Kyler Murray at 515, so the market currently rates Kyler Murray about 14.7x 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 Deshaun WatsonWent with Kyler Murray
2024-06-17-8%Ja'Marr Chase, Kenneth WalkerTyreek Hill, D'Andre Swift, 1 1st
2024-04-28-15%Patrick Mahomes, AJ Dillon, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, 1 1st, 1 2ndAlvin Kamara, Cooper Kupp, Lamar Jackson, 1 1st
2024-04-10+18%Tyjae Spears, 1 1stAdam Thielen
2023-12-12-31%Javonte Williams
2023-11-26-8%1 1st, 1 2nd, 2 3rdsEzekiel Elliott
2023-11-22-24%1 1st, 1 3rd, 1 later pick
2023-11-17+4%De'Von Achane, 1 3rd
2023-11-16+0%1 1st
2023-11-05+4%1 1st
2023-11-04+3%Breece Hall, Zay FlowersChris Godwin, Brandon Aiyuk, 1 1st

Read each row as: Deshaun Watson, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Kyler Murray 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 54, the whole-deal value gap runs -8.8% from the side that received Deshaun Watson, so the side ending up with Kyler Murray 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 Kyler Murray 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 54 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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