Jaylen Waddle and Nico Collins have been on opposite sides of 27 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 Nico Collins, nothing else changing hands.
This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 9 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 9 times it was the Nico Collins side (4 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.
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 Nico Collins at 6,188, so the market currently rates Nico Collins 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 Nico Collins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-01 | -7% | Josh Jacobs, 1 2nd | Harold Fannin, 1 3rd |
| 2025-11-06 | -17% | Jake Ferguson, 3 1sts, 1 2nd | Audric Estime, George Kittle, Jahmyr Gibbs, 1 3rd |
| 2025-10-26 | -22% | Blake Corum, Dalton Schultz, Jordan Addison | David Njoku, Zach Charbonnet |
| 2025-06-03 | +2% | 1 1st | — |
| 2025-02-26 | +10% | George Pickens | — |
| 2025-02-20 | +25% | Josh Allen | Drake Maye, Rondale Moore |
| 2024-12-15 | +34% | DK Metcalf, Tank Dell | Wan'Dale Robinson |
| 2024-11-13 | -22% | Justin Jefferson, Rashod Bateman, Bijan Robinson | Amon-Ra St. Brown, Garrett Wilson, Breece Hall |
| 2024-10-26 | -2% | Will Dissly, Tee Higgins, Romeo Doubs, 1 later pick | Dalton Schultz, David Montgomery |
| 2024-09-21 | +21% | J.K. Dobbins | — |
Read each row as: Jaylen Waddle, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Nico Collins 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 27, the whole-deal value gap runs +9.8% 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 Nico Collins 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 27 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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