Deshaun Watson and Zach Wilson 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. 2 of them were straight up: Deshaun Watson for Zach Wilson, nothing else changing hands.
In 2 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 0 to 2 between the Deshaun Watson side and the Zach Wilson side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.
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 Zach Wilson at 3, so the market currently rates Deshaun Watson about 12.3x 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.
| Date | Margin | Went with Deshaun Watson | Went with Zach Wilson |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | +19% | Cooper Rush, Ja'Marr Chase, Jalen Tolbert, 19 more, 1 2nd, 2 3rds, 1 later pick | Khalil Shakir, Chris Brooks, Cade Otton, 14 more, 3 1sts, 1 3rd, 1 later pick |
| 2023-09-21 | +71% | David Montgomery | Jordan Addison |
| 2022-11-15 | +35% | Jacoby Brissett | 1 1st |
| 2022-11-03 | +61% | Tre'Quan Smith, Mecole Hardman | Chase Claypool, Jahan Dotson |
| 2022-10-17 | +24% | Marquise Brown, 1 2nd | Hunter Henry, Alvin Kamara, Darnell Mooney, 1 later pick |
| 2022-08-30 | +91% | — | — |
| 2022-08-28 | +104% | — | — |
| 2022-08-19 | +5% | Joe Mixon | Christian McCaffrey |
| 2022-08-13 | +97% | Mark Andrews | Darren Waller |
| 2022-06-18 | +38% | Cam Akers, Rashod Bateman, 1 2nd, 1 3rd | Mike Evans, Tyler Lockett, Evan Engram, 2 more |
Read each row as: Deshaun Watson, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Zach Wilson 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.
Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs +35.1% from the side that received Deshaun Watson, so the side ending up with Deshaun Watson has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.
A calculator answers “is Deshaun Watson for Zach Wilson 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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