Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins have been on opposite sides of 27 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 11 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 6 of those 11 times it was the Aaron Rodgers side (5 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Kirk Cousins as the more valuable of the two.
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 Aaron Rodgers prices at 41 and Kirk Cousins at 25, so the market currently rates Aaron Rodgers about 1.6x 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.
| Date | Margin | Went with Aaron Rodgers | Went with Kirk Cousins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-03 | -7% | — | Jalen Milroe, Jaylin Noel, 1 later pick |
| 2026-06-14 | +61% | Travis Kelce, Derrick Henry | 2 2nds, 2 3rds, 2 later picks |
| 2025-10-02 | -43% | Davante Adams, Alvin Kamara, Calvin Ridley, 1 2nd | Brian Thomas, Efton Chism, 2 3rds |
| 2025-05-30 | -13% | Bucky Irving, Jerry Jeudy, Devin Singletary, 14 more, 1 3rd, 1 later pick | Audric Estime, Jahan Dotson, Zach Wilson, 11 more, 2 1sts, 2 2nds, 2 3rds, 1 later pick |
| 2025-05-28 | -40% | Mac Jones | Roschon Johnson, Blake Corum |
| 2025-05-05 | -36% | Chris Rodriguez, Luke McCaffrey, Cooper Kupp, 10 more | Rashee Rice, Ben Sinnott, Jaheim Bell, 10 more, 1 1st, 1 3rd |
| 2024-10-08 | +19% | Rashid Shaheed, 1 3rd | — |
| 2024-06-03 | -92% | Colby Parkinson, 1 3rd | — |
| 2023-11-04 | -108% | 2 later picks | — |
| 2023-10-10 | -38% | Tyjae Spears | — |
Read each row as: Aaron Rodgers, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Kirk Cousins 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 Aaron Rodgers; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 27, the whole-deal value gap runs -0.9% from the side that received Aaron Rodgers - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.
A calculator answers “is Aaron Rodgers for Kirk Cousins 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 27 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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