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Is Geno Smith for Tua Tagovailoa fair?

Geno Smith and Tua Tagovailoa 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: Geno Smith for Tua Tagovailoa, nothing else changing hands.

In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 3 to 0 between the Geno Smith side and the Tua Tagovailoa side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

21
Deals they were both in
2
Straight up, one for one
3 / 0
One side sweetened: Geno Smith / Tua Tagovailoa

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 Geno Smith prices at 39 and Tua Tagovailoa at 59, so the market currently rates Tua Tagovailoa about 1.5x 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 Geno SmithWent with Tua Tagovailoa
2026-08-30-12%Christian Kirk, Chase BrownRashee Rice, Malachi Fields
2026-07-10-102%
2026-06-22-27%2 1stsJahmyr Gibbs, 1 3rd, 1 later pick
2025-11-13-99%1 3rd
2025-07-29-54%Keon Coleman, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 later pickDK Metcalf, Terry McLaurin, 1 3rd
2025-07-07+42%Jalen HurtsBryce Young, 1 1st
2025-06-28-59%1 2nd, 1 3rd1 later pick
2025-05-10-65%1 2nd1 2nd
2025-05-08+36%1 1st1 3rd
2025-04-20-46%Aaron Jones, 1 2nd1 2nd

Read each row as: Geno Smith, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Tua Tagovailoa 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 Geno Smith; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs -30.0% from the side that received Geno Smith, so the side ending up with Tua Tagovailoa 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 Geno Smith for Tua Tagovailoa 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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