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Is Jaylen Waddle for Zay Flowers fair?

Jaylen Waddle and Zay Flowers have been on opposite sides of 29 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. 3 of them were straight up: Jaylen Waddle for Zay Flowers, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 8 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 7 of those 8 times it was the Zay Flowers side (1 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.

29
Deals they were both in
3
Straight up, one for one
1 / 7
One side sweetened: Jaylen Waddle / Zay Flowers

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 Zay Flowers at 4,229, so the market currently rates Jaylen Waddle about 1.1x 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 Zay Flowers
2026-06-03-1%Cam Skattebo, Isaiah Likely, Kenneth WalkerDallas Goedert, Chris Olave, Kyren Williams
2026-03-19+10%
2026-03-11+43%1 3rd
2026-02-23+33%Davante Adams, Brock Purdy, 1 2ndCam Ward, 1 1st
2026-02-06+7%Ashtyn Davis, Greg DulcichIsaiah Likely
2026-01-13+44%1 2ndCade Stover, 1 later pick
2025-10-09-39%Javonte WilliamsKenneth Walker
2025-07-18-25%MarShawn Lloyd, Ricky Pearsall, D'Andre SwiftTravis Hunter
2025-06-01+24%Sam LaPortaJ.J. McCarthy
2025-03-23+19%Brian Robinson1 2nd, 1 later pick

Read each row as: Jaylen Waddle, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Zay Flowers 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 29, the whole-deal value gap runs +22.9% 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 Zay Flowers 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 29 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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