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.
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.
| Date | Margin | Went with Jaylen Waddle | Went with Jonathan Taylor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-05 | +54% | Rico Dowdle, Jordan Addison, 1 1st | Joshua Palmer |
| 2025-11-16 | +43% | Quinshon Judkins | 1 2nd |
| 2025-08-09 | -10% | Mike Evans, J.K. Dobbins | Khalil Shakir |
| 2025-07-12 | +13% | TreVeyon Henderson | Jayden Higgins |
| 2025-05-18 | -13% | Tyrone Tracy | — |
| 2025-05-18 | +2% | Jared Wiley, Hunter Henry, Christian McCaffrey, 5 more, 2 later picks | Brenden Rice, Tyler Boyd, Samaje Perine, 2 more, 2 1sts, 2 3rds, 1 later pick |
| 2025-04-23 | +2% | Christian Kirk, Drake London, Breece Hall | Justin Jefferson |
| 2025-04-05 | -11% | Alvin Kamara | Rashid Shaheed |
| 2024-11-03 | -25% | 1 2nd, 1 3rd | Calvin Ridley |
| 2024-09-15 | +1% | Trevor Lawrence, Kenneth Walker | Daniel 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.
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.
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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