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Is DeVonta Smith for Ja'Marr Chase fair?

DeVonta Smith and Ja'Marr Chase have been on opposite sides of 29 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: DeVonta Smith for Ja'Marr Chase, 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 7 of those 7 times it was the DeVonta Smith 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 Ja'Marr Chase as the more valuable of the two.

29
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
7 / 0
One side sweetened: DeVonta Smith / Ja'Marr Chase

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 DeVonta Smith prices at 5,020 and Ja'Marr Chase at 10,232, so the market currently rates Ja'Marr Chase about 2.0x 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 DeVonta SmithWent with Ja'Marr Chase
2026-05-24+30%Harold Fannin, 2 1sts, 1 2nd
2026-05-10-22%Evan Engram, Malik Willis, 1 1st, 1 3rdQuentin Johnston
2026-04-20+8%Terry McLaurin, James Cook
2025-08-20+22%Bijan RobinsonJalen Coker, 1 3rd
2025-06-02+13%Deebo Samuel, Jonathan Taylor
2025-05-17-14%Jaylen Waddle, Chuba Hubbard
2025-04-29+21%T.J. Hockenson, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, 2 1stsJosh Downs, 1 1st
2025-03-23-29%Cedric Tillman, Xavier Legette, Keon Coleman, 2 more1 3rd
2025-01-29+16%Jordan Love
2025-01-27-17%Chase Brown, 1 2nd

Read each row as: DeVonta Smith, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Ja'Marr Chase 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 DeVonta Smith; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 29, the whole-deal value gap runs +0.3% from the side that received DeVonta Smith - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is DeVonta Smith for Ja'Marr Chase 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 29 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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