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Is Jayden Reed for Jaylen Waddle fair?

Jayden Reed and Jaylen Waddle have been on opposite sides of 29 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 9 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 8 of those 9 times it was the Jayden Reed side (1 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.

29
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
8 / 1
One side sweetened: Jayden Reed / 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 Jayden Reed prices at 803 and Jaylen Waddle at 4,624, so the market currently rates Jaylen Waddle about 5.8x 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 Jayden ReedWent with Jaylen Waddle
2026-05-09-124%Juwan Johnson, 2 later picks
2026-05-07-40%Dalton Kincaid, Kyren WilliamsTucker Kraft, 1 3rd
2026-04-30-129%Isaac TeSlaa, 1 3rd
2026-04-04+56%Elijah Arroyo, 1 1st, 2 2ndsJake Ferguson
2025-11-17-120%Kenny Gainwell, 1 2nd1 later pick
2025-10-08-98%Keon ColemanJaylen Warren
2025-09-06-53%Jayden Higgins, Keenan Allen
2025-08-25-108%Dylan Sampson
2025-06-06-60%Tyrone Tracy, Jared Goff, Sam Darnold, 1 more, 1 2ndTua Tagovailoa, Jonathan Taylor, Chris Olave
2025-06-04+16%C.J. Stroud, 2 2ndsBrock Purdy, 1 3rd, 1 later pick

Read each row as: Jayden Reed, 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 Jayden Reed; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 29, the whole-deal value gap runs -45.8% from the side that received Jayden Reed, so the side ending up with Jaylen Waddle 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 Jayden Reed 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 29 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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Values from DynastyProcess and nflverse. Trades from public Sleeper leagues. When the data will not support a fair grade I leave it out and say so. Is this trade fair? · All players · Privacy · Terms