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Is Jaylen Waddle for Jonathan Taylor fair?

Jaylen Waddle and Jonathan Taylor have been on opposite sides of 26 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. 2 of them were straight up: Jaylen Waddle for Jonathan Taylor, nothing else changing hands.

In 2 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 0 between the Jaylen Waddle side and the Jonathan Taylor side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

26
Deals they were both in
2
Straight up, one for one
2 / 0
One side sweetened: Jaylen Waddle / Jonathan Taylor

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 Jaylen Waddle prices at 4,624 and Jonathan Taylor at 6,232, so the market currently rates Jonathan Taylor 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 2026-07-24.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Jaylen WaddleWent with Jonathan Taylor
2026-03-05+54%Rico Dowdle, Jordan Addison, 1 1stJoshua Palmer
2025-11-16+43%Quinshon Judkins1 2nd
2025-08-09-10%Mike Evans, J.K. DobbinsKhalil Shakir
2025-07-12+13%TreVeyon HendersonJayden Higgins
2025-05-18-13%Tyrone Tracy
2025-05-18+2%Jared Wiley, Hunter Henry, Christian McCaffrey, 5 more, 2 later picksBrenden Rice, Tyler Boyd, Samaje Perine, 2 more, 2 1sts, 2 3rds, 1 later pick
2025-04-23+2%Christian Kirk, Drake London, Breece HallJustin Jefferson
2025-04-05-11%Alvin KamaraRashid Shaheed
2024-11-03-25%1 2nd, 1 3rdCalvin Ridley
2024-09-15+1%Trevor Lawrence, Kenneth WalkerDaniel Jones, Diontae Johnson, Nico Collins, 1 1st

Read each row as: Jaylen Waddle, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jonathan Taylor 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 Jaylen Waddle; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 26, the whole-deal value gap runs -2.3% from the side that received Jaylen Waddle - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is Jaylen Waddle for Jonathan Taylor 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 26 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