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Is DeVonta Smith for Jaxon Smith-Njigba fair?

DeVonta Smith and Jaxon Smith-Njigba have been on opposite sides of 22 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: DeVonta Smith for Jaxon Smith-Njigba, 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 3 of those 4 times it was the Jaxon Smith-Njigba side (1 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating DeVonta Smith as the more valuable of the two.

22
Deals they were both in
2
Straight up, one for one
1 / 3
One side sweetened: DeVonta Smith / Jaxon Smith-Njigba

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 Jaxon Smith-Njigba at 9,739, so the market currently rates Jaxon Smith-Njigba about 1.9x 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 DeVonta SmithWent with Jaxon Smith-Njigba
2026-07-05+16%Luther Burden, Jalen Hurts, 1 1st, 1 3rdJaxson Dart
2026-03-09+54%Kyler Murray, Justin Jefferson, Josh Downs
2025-10-09+62%Justin Jefferson, Kenny Gainwell1 2nd, 1 3rd
2025-08-01+27%T.J. HockensonRoman Wilson
2025-06-24+13%Kirk Cousins, Emeka Egbuka, 1 2nd1 1st
2025-05-26+8%Kyler Murray1 1st
2025-01-14+39%1 1st1 2nd
2024-11-28+77%Rhamondre StevensonKimani Vidal
2024-11-08+62%David NjokuNick Chubb, Pat Freiermuth
2024-10-03+48%T.J. Hockenson, Puka NacuaLadd McConkey, Kirk Cousins, Christian Kirk, 1 more

Read each row as: DeVonta Smith, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jaxon Smith-Njigba 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 22, the whole-deal value gap runs +32.5% from the side that received DeVonta Smith, so the side ending up with DeVonta Smith 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 DeVonta Smith for Jaxon Smith-Njigba 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 22 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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