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Is Jaxon Smith-Njigba for Puka Nacua fair?

Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Puka Nacua have been on opposite sides of 31 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. 3 of them were straight up: Jaxon Smith-Njigba for Puka Nacua, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 5 times it was the Jaxon Smith-Njigba 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 Puka Nacua as the more valuable of the two.

31
Deals they were both in
3
Straight up, one for one
5 / 0
One side sweetened: Jaxon Smith-Njigba / Puka Nacua

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 Jaxon Smith-Njigba prices at 9,739 and Puka Nacua at 9,098, so the market currently rates Jaxon Smith-Njigba 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 Jaxon Smith-NjigbaWent with Puka Nacua
2026-07-11+7%
2026-06-15-15%Jonathon Brooks, Nico CollinsTony Pollard, Amon-Ra St. Brown
2025-10-15-21%
2025-09-12-20%Cam Ward, Kyle Pitts, Javonte Williams, 1 3rdKyren Williams, 1 2nd
2025-08-28-29%Braelon Allen, Trey Benson, Jalen Milroe, 2 more, 1 2ndJ.J. McCarthy, 1 1st
2025-08-25+10%Jordan Addison
2025-08-10-3%Jerry Jeudy, Bryce YoungTyler Shough, Davante Adams
2025-06-30+9%Bijan RobinsonDe'Von Achane
2025-05-23-40%1 2nd, 1 3rdTyrone Tracy
2025-04-13-30%1 2nd, 1 3rd1 later pick

Read each row as: Jaxon Smith-Njigba, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Puka Nacua 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.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 31, the whole-deal value gap runs -3.3% from the side that received Jaxon Smith-Njigba, so the side ending up with Puka Nacua 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 Jaxon Smith-Njigba for Puka Nacua 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 31 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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