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Is DeVonta Smith for Jaylen Waddle fair?

DeVonta Smith and Jaylen Waddle have been on opposite sides of 28 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.

None of them were a straight one-for-one. Every time these two crossed, something else was attached to close it.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 3 of those 5 times it was the DeVonta Smith side (2 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Jaylen Waddle as the more valuable of the two.

28
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
3 / 2
One side sweetened: DeVonta Smith / Jaylen Waddle

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 Jaylen Waddle at 4,624, so the market currently rates DeVonta Smith about 1.1x 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 Jaylen Waddle
2026-04-29-51%Jonathon Brooks, Quinshon JudkinsBucky Irving, Jameson Williams
2026-04-09+2%Jalen Coker, Rico Dowdle, 1 1st, 2 2ndsKyle Monangai, David Montgomery, Tee Higgins, 1 1st
2025-10-28-19%Marvin Harrison, Dak Prescott, Chase BrownAshton Jeanty, Joe Burrow
2025-10-12+75%Rashee Rice, Michael Wilson, Luther Burden, 3 moreTre' Harris, Kendrick Bourne, Jakobi Meyers, 3 more
2025-10-12+75%Rashee Rice, Michael Wilson, Luther Burden, 3 moreTre' Harris, Kendrick Bourne, Jakobi Meyers, 3 more
2025-08-05+12%Braelon Allen
2025-05-07-35%Isaiah Davis, Malachi Corley, Sean Tucker, 1 2ndAlvin Kamara, Chris Godwin, Jaylen Warren
2024-09-25+23%Trey Benson, Geno Smith, 1 1stGardner Minshew, Jordan Addison
2024-08-27-3%Breece Hall, Brock Purdy, 2 3rdsJosh Allen, Rhamondre Stevenson
2024-07-25-5%1 2nd

Read each row as: DeVonta Smith, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jaylen Waddle 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 28, the whole-deal value gap runs -0.4% 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 Jaylen Waddle 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 28 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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