Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Josh Downs have been on opposite sides of 23 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.
In 2 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 0 to 2 between the Jaxon Smith-Njigba side and the Josh Downs side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.
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 Jaxon Smith-Njigba prices at 9,739 and Josh Downs at 1,047, so the market currently rates Jaxon Smith-Njigba about 9.3x 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 Jaxon Smith-Njigba | Went with Josh Downs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-12 | +11% | Sam LaPorta, 1 2nd, 1 3rd | Tetairoa McMillan, KC Concepcion, Kenyon Sadiq, 1 more |
| 2026-06-04 | +104% | Cedric Tillman, Sam LaPorta, Isaiah Davis, 14 more | Trey Benson, Devaughn Vele, Phil Mafah, 7 more, 2 2nds, 1 3rd, 2 later picks |
| 2026-03-09 | -54% | — | Kyler Murray, Justin Jefferson, DeVonta Smith |
| 2025-09-09 | +60% | Austin Hooper, Curtis Samuel, Hunter Renfrow | Bhayshul Tuten, Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Travis Etienne |
| 2025-04-29 | +21% | T.J. Hockenson, DeVonta Smith, 2 1sts | Ja'Marr Chase, 1 1st |
| 2025-04-11 | +72% | Jordan Love | Drake Maye |
| 2025-03-17 | -18% | Jaylen Wright, 1 1st | C.J. Stroud |
| 2025-03-13 | +23% | Isaiah Davis, Jerry Jeudy, Breece Hall | Ladd McConkey, Josh Jacobs, Rhamondre Stevenson |
| 2024-12-13 | -42% | Rashod Bateman, 1 2nd | Jayden Reed, 1 1st |
| 2024-10-18 | +87% | — | 1 2nd |
Read each row as: Jaxon Smith-Njigba, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Josh Downs 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 Jaxon Smith-Njigba; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +20.7% from the side that received Jaxon Smith-Njigba, so the side ending up with Jaxon Smith-Njigba has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.
A calculator answers “is Jaxon Smith-Njigba for Josh Downs 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 23 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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