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Is Christian Watson for Cooper Kupp fair?

Christian Watson and Cooper Kupp 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.

Most of those were larger deals with other pieces attached. 2 of them were straight up: Christian Watson for Cooper Kupp, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 6 times it was the Christian Watson side (1 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Cooper Kupp as the more valuable of the two.

27
Deals they were both in
2
Straight up, one for one
5 / 1
One side sweetened: Christian Watson / Cooper Kupp

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 Christian Watson prices at 2,036 and Cooper Kupp at 17, so the market currently rates Christian Watson about 119.8x 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 Christian WatsonWent with Cooper Kupp
2026-06-13+17%Matthew Stafford, Justice Hill, Michael Wilson, 19 more, 1 1st, 1 3rd, 1 later pickJoe Milton, Rachaad White, Kirk Cousins, 15 more, 1 1st, 1 3rd
2025-11-16-176%Aaron Jones, 1 1st, 1 later pick
2025-10-07-8%Isaiah Bond, Harold Fannin, 1 2ndDarren Waller, Sam Darnold, Calvin Ridley
2024-12-17-16%Rachaad White, 1 2ndJames Conner
2024-12-05+12%DeVonta Smith, Travis Etienne, Tank Bigsby, 1 2ndKyren Williams, Brian Robinson
2024-11-05+40%Jordan Mason, 1 1stDavid Montgomery, 1 3rd
2024-11-02+75%Jameson Williams1 3rd
2024-08-25+24%J.J. McCarthy, Jelani WoodsJoe Milton, Will Levis
2024-06-22-30%
2024-05-23-25%1 2nd

Read each row as: Christian Watson, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Cooper Kupp 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 Christian Watson; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 27, the whole-deal value gap runs -27.3% from the side that received Christian Watson, so the side ending up with Cooper Kupp 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 Christian Watson for Cooper Kupp 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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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