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Is Matthew Stafford for Tua Tagovailoa fair?

Matthew Stafford and Tua Tagovailoa have been on opposite sides of 41 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. 1 of them were straight up: Matthew Stafford for Tua Tagovailoa, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 7 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 7 of those 7 times it was the Matthew Stafford 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 Tua Tagovailoa as the more valuable of the two.

41
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
7 / 0
One side sweetened: Matthew Stafford / Tua Tagovailoa

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 Matthew Stafford prices at 371 and Tua Tagovailoa at 122, so the market currently rates Matthew Stafford about 3.0x 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 2026-07-24.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Matthew StaffordWent with Tua Tagovailoa
2026-07-24+58%Travis Kelce, Terry McLaurin, D'Andre SwiftXavier Worthy, Justin Joly, Jordan Mason, 1 2nd
2026-05-09-16%Tee Higgins1 1st, 1 2nd
2025-11-22+6%Travis Kelce
2025-11-21+6%Travis Kelce
2025-11-19+58%Jakobi Meyers, 1 later pickAdonai Mitchell, 1 2nd
2025-11-14-6%Saquon Barkley, 1 3rdRJ Harvey, 1 1st
2025-11-09-67%Kareem HuntJerry Jeudy
2025-11-05+4%Dalton Kincaid, David Montgomery, Kenneth WalkerWoody Marks, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2025-09-27+28%Chase BrownKaleb Johnson
2025-08-26-72%Kareem Hunt, 1 2nd, 1 3rd, 1 later pickDillon Gabriel, Joe Flacco

Read each row as: Matthew Stafford, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Tua Tagovailoa 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 Matthew Stafford; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 41, the whole-deal value gap runs -0.0% from the side that received Matthew Stafford - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is Matthew Stafford for Tua Tagovailoa 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 41 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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Values from DynastyProcess and nflverse. Trades from public Sleeper leagues. When the data will not support a fair grade I leave it out and say so. Is this trade fair? · All players · Privacy · Terms