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Is Russell Wilson for Zach Wilson fair?

Russell Wilson and Zach Wilson have been on opposite sides of 20 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 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 6 of those 6 times it was the Zach Wilson 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 Russell Wilson as the more valuable of the two.

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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: Russell Wilson / Zach Wilson
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Russell WilsonWent with Zach Wilson
2025-09-01-86%Brenton Strange, 1 3rdJa'Tavion Sanders, Jerry Jeudy
2024-05-12+44%Davante Adams, 1 1st, 1 3rd1 1st
2023-11-19+136%1 3rd
2023-11-18+11%Courtland Sutton, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2023-09-30-4%Dallas Goedert, Miles Sanders, Brian RobinsonKhalil Herbert, 2 1sts, 1 3rd
2023-04-07+58%Davante Adams, Dalvin Cook, Marquise BrownKadarius Toney, Wan'Dale Robinson, James Cook, 1 more, 1 1st
2023-02-25-158%1 3rdBaker Mayfield, Amon-Ra St. Brown
2022-11-05+70%Jared Goff, Mike Gesicki, 2 2ndsSam Ehlinger, Greg Dulcich, 1 3rd
2022-10-17+44%1 3rd
2022-08-29+28%Brandon Aiyuk, 1 3rdJahan Dotson, 1 1st

Read each row as: Russell Wilson, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Zach Wilson 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 Russell Wilson; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 20, the whole-deal value gap runs +43.8% from the side that received Russell Wilson, so the side ending up with Russell Wilson 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 Russell Wilson for Zach Wilson 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 20 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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