Brandin Cooks and JuJu Smith-Schuster 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.
Most of those were larger deals with other pieces attached. 1 of them were straight up: Brandin Cooks for JuJu Smith-Schuster, nothing else changing hands.
In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 3 to 0 between the Brandin Cooks side and the JuJu Smith-Schuster side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.
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 Brandin Cooks prices at 2 and JuJu Smith-Schuster at 1, so the market currently rates Brandin Cooks about 2.0x 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.
| Date | Margin | Went with Brandin Cooks | Went with JuJu Smith-Schuster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-30 | -63% | Colt McCoy | Corey Davis, Kyle Trask, 1 3rd |
| 2023-06-07 | +32% | 1 2nd | — |
| 2023-04-23 | +24% | Elijah Moore | 1 2nd, 1 3rd |
| 2022-10-12 | -10% | Matt Ryan, David Njoku, Darrell Henderson, 1 more | Dallas Goedert, David Bell, 1 1st, 1 2nd |
| 2022-09-19 | +37% | Michael Carter | 1 3rd |
| 2022-09-14 | +28% | 1 2nd | — |
| 2022-09-08 | -8% | Rhamondre Stevenson, Kyren Williams, 1 later pick | Tony Pollard, 2 3rds |
| 2022-09-08 | +53% | Trevor Lawrence, Travis Etienne | Aaron Jones, Jakobi Meyers, Zach Wilson |
| 2022-07-04 | +65% | Keenan Allen, David Montgomery | 1 1st, 1 2nd |
| 2022-06-12 | -32% | Travis Kelce, Marcus Mariota | Zach Ertz, DK Metcalf |
Read each row as: Brandin Cooks, plus anything in the third column, was traded for JuJu Smith-Schuster 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 Brandin Cooks; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 20, the whole-deal value gap runs -10.4% from the side that received Brandin Cooks, so the side ending up with JuJu Smith-Schuster has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.
A calculator answers “is Brandin Cooks for JuJu Smith-Schuster 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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