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Is Trey Lance for Tua Tagovailoa fair?

Trey Lance and Tua Tagovailoa have been on opposite sides of 25 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 6 of those 8 times it was the Trey Lance side (2 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.

25
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
6 / 2
One side sweetened: Trey Lance / 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 Trey Lance prices at 3 and Tua Tagovailoa at 122, so the market currently rates Tua Tagovailoa about 40.7x 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 Trey LanceWent with Tua Tagovailoa
2026-06-02+11%Efton Chism, Jalen Hurts, Zach Ertz, 10 more, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 2 later picksDak Prescott, Brandin Cooks, Jake Browning, 18 more, 1 1st, 1 3rd
2023-08-20+58%Dalton Kincaid, Alvin Kamara, Jerry Jeudy, 2 1stsLuke Schoonmaker, David Montgomery, Tank Dell, 1 2nd
2023-08-07+45%Tee Higgins
2023-07-19-21%George Kittle, Miles Sanders, Ja'Marr ChaseA.J. Brown, Travis Etienne, Chig Okonkwo, 1 3rd
2023-05-18-13%Kadarius Toney, 1 2nd
2023-05-13+49%1 1st, 1 3rd
2023-05-11-21%Ja'Marr ChaseTony Pollard, Amon-Ra St. Brown
2023-05-04-30%DJ Chark, 1 1st, 1 2ndTravis Etienne
2023-05-02+13%Christian Watson, 1 3rdDrew Lock, Gabe Davis, Rondale Moore, 1 later pick
2023-05-01-22%Calvin Ridley, Javonte WilliamsDeVonta Smith

Read each row as: Trey Lance, 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 Trey Lance; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 25, the whole-deal value gap runs -14.0% from the side that received Trey Lance, so the side ending up with Tua Tagovailoa 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 Trey Lance 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 25 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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