Ja'Marr Chase and Jaylen Waddle have been on opposite sides of 40 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 13 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 13 of those 13 times it was the Jaylen Waddle 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.
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 Ja'Marr Chase prices at 10,232 and Jaylen Waddle at 4,624, so the market currently rates Ja'Marr Chase about 2.2x 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 Ja'Marr Chase | Went with Jaylen Waddle |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | -5% | Sam LaPorta, Devaughn Vele, Jameis Winston, 5 more | Emanuel Wilson, Ray Davis, Malik Nabers, 7 more, 1 later pick |
| 2025-11-13 | +8% | — | 2 1sts |
| 2025-09-29 | -6% | Hunter Henry, Chuba Hubbard | Malik Nabers, Cam Skattebo, Tory Horton, 2 later picks |
| 2025-06-08 | -20% | Jimmy Horn, Tony Pollard, Kyren Williams | Ja'Tavion Sanders, Isaac Guerendo, A.J. Brown, 1 more |
| 2025-05-17 | +14% | — | DeVonta Smith, Chuba Hubbard |
| 2024-10-22 | +11% | — | Brandon Aiyuk, 1 1st, 1 3rd |
| 2024-09-28 | -1% | Dalton Kincaid, Christian Kirk, 1 2nd | Najee Harris, Jake Ferguson, Chris Olave |
| 2024-09-05 | +6% | Raheem Mostert | Nico Collins |
| 2024-09-04 | +17% | — | 1 1st, 1 2nd |
| 2024-05-15 | -4% | Javonte Williams | A.J. Brown, Zack Moss |
Read each row as: Ja'Marr Chase, 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 Ja'Marr Chase; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 40, the whole-deal value gap runs -0.4% from the side that received Ja'Marr Chase - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.
A calculator answers “is Ja'Marr Chase 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 40 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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