Jaylen Waddle and Josh Jacobs 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. 4 of them were straight up: Jaylen Waddle for Josh Jacobs, 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 Josh Jacobs 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 Josh Jacobs at 1,583, so the market currently rates Jaylen Waddle about 2.9x 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 Josh Jacobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-12 | +4% | 1 3rd | — |
| 2025-06-07 | +45% | Brian Robinson, 1 2nd | — |
| 2025-06-04 | +26% | Tyrone Tracy, Jalen Hurts | T.J. Hockenson, Darius Slayton, Brock Purdy, 1 more |
| 2025-04-21 | +1% | Blake Corum, 1 1st | Joe Mixon, George Kittle |
| 2024-12-16 | +34% | T.J. Hockenson, C.J. Stroud, 1 1st, 1 2nd | Jonnu Smith, Terry McLaurin, Rachaad White, 1 more |
| 2024-11-20 | +46% | — | — |
| 2024-10-28 | +63% | Zach Charbonnet | 1 2nd |
| 2024-09-26 | +76% | — | — |
| 2024-09-19 | +35% | Tank Dell | D'Andre Swift, Rhamondre Stevenson |
| 2024-08-14 | +29% | Noah Sewell, Travis Etienne, Pete Werner | Demario Davis, Kenneth Murray, Drake London |
Read each row as: Jaylen Waddle, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Josh Jacobs 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 +24.8% from the side that received Jaylen Waddle, 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.
A calculator answers “is Jaylen Waddle for Josh Jacobs 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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