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Is Jonathan Taylor for Tyjae Spears fair?

Jonathan Taylor and Tyjae Spears have been on opposite sides of 21 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.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 8 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 8 of those 8 times it was the Tyjae Spears side (0 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Jonathan Taylor as the more valuable of the two.

21
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
0 / 8
One side sweetened: Jonathan Taylor / Tyjae Spears

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 Jonathan Taylor prices at 6,609 and Tyjae Spears at 87, so the market currently rates Jonathan Taylor about 76.0x 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 2026-09-04.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Jonathan TaylorWent with Tyjae Spears
2025-08-23+131%Calvin AustinKeon Coleman, Ollie Gordon
2025-08-07+40%Tyreek Hill, Jerome Ford
2025-07-19+70%Cedric Tillman, 1 3rdRicky Pearsall, Luther Burden
2025-06-12+119%Jaylin Noel, Deebo Samuel
2025-06-06+22%Matthew StaffordTee Higgins
2025-03-14+20%1 2nd1 1st
2024-11-08+75%Tyreek HillTyrone Tracy, Tee Higgins, Zach Charbonnet, 1 2nd, 1 3rd, 2 later picks
2024-10-25+114%Calvin Ridley, Greg DortchSpencer Rattler, Jordan Travis, Tyrone Tracy, 1 more
2024-10-24+112%Zach Charbonnet, 1 3rd
2024-09-19+41%1 1st, 1 2nd

Read each row as: Jonathan Taylor, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Tyjae Spears 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 Jonathan Taylor; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs +52.9% from the side that received Jonathan Taylor, so the side ending up with Jonathan Taylor 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 Jonathan Taylor for Tyjae Spears 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 21 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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