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Is Jaylen Waddle for Terry McLaurin fair?

Jaylen Waddle and Terry McLaurin 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.

None of them were a straight one-for-one. Every time these two crossed, something else was attached to close it.

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

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Deals they were both in
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Straight up, one for one
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One side sweetened: Jaylen Waddle / Terry McLaurin

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 Terry McLaurin at 1,768, so the market currently rates Jaylen Waddle about 2.6x 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 Terry McLaurin
2026-06-17+62%Brian ThomasJonathon Brooks, Eli Stowers, 1 3rd
2026-03-20-44%Wan'Dale RobinsonJacory Croskey-Merritt, C.J. Stroud
2025-09-17+16%Marvin Harrison, Cam Ward, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rdKeenan Allen, Dak Prescott, Alvin Kamara, 1 more
2025-09-09+54%Dalton KincaidTravis Kelce, 1 2nd
2025-05-18-1%Geno Smith, 2 1sts, 1 2ndRussell Wilson, Saquon Barkley
2025-02-27-40%Tyreek Hill, Sam Darnold, Tua Tagovailoa, 1 morePatrick Mahomes, 1 1st
2024-12-18+18%Dallas Goedert, Chris Olave, 1 2ndTravis Kelce, Adam Thielen, Hunter Henry, 1 more
2024-12-16+34%T.J. Hockenson, C.J. Stroud, 1 1st, 1 2ndJonnu Smith, Josh Jacobs, Rachaad White, 1 more
2024-12-04+15%Tyjae Spears, Jordan AddisonMike Evans, Nick Chubb, Jerome Ford
2024-11-21+97%DJ MooreCooper Kupp

Read each row as: Jaylen Waddle, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Terry McLaurin 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 27, the whole-deal value gap runs +17.8% 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.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is Jaylen Waddle for Terry McLaurin 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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