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Is Jayden Reed for Mike Evans fair?

Jayden Reed and Mike Evans have been on opposite sides of 24 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. 5 of them were straight up: Jayden Reed for Mike Evans, nothing else changing hands.

In 1 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 0 to 1 between the Jayden Reed side and the Mike Evans side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

24
Deals they were both in
5
Straight up, one for one
0 / 1
One side sweetened: Jayden Reed / Mike Evans

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 757 and Mike Evans at 1,016, so the market currently rates Mike Evans about 1.3x 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 2026-09-04.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Jayden ReedWent with Mike Evans
2026-09-04-14%Jonathon Brooks, 1 1st, 1 3rdJakobi Meyers, Travis Etienne, Chuba Hubbard
2026-08-30-22%
2026-05-27-66%Bucky Irving, T.J. Hockenson, 1 later pickDerrick Henry, Christian McCaffrey, 1 later pick
2026-05-14-31%
2026-05-13+9%Sam LaPorta, DK Metcalf, Brandon AiyukDavante Adams, Trey McBride
2026-05-06-49%1 later pickIsiah Pacheco, 1 later pick
2026-04-16+86%1 1st, 1 2ndDylan Sampson, Tyler Shough
2026-03-18+74%Pat Bryant, Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Kyle MonangaiKenny Gainwell
2025-10-20-19%Ricky PearsallDavante Adams
2025-08-28-26%1 2nd1 3rd

Read each row as: Jayden Reed, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Mike Evans 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 24, the whole-deal value gap runs -14.2% from the side that received Jayden Reed, so the side ending up with Mike Evans 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 Mike Evans 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 24 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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