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Is C.J. Stroud for Jalen Hurts fair?

C.J. Stroud and Jalen Hurts have been on opposite sides of 37 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. 4 of them were straight up: C.J. Stroud for Jalen Hurts, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 11 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 10 of those 11 times it was the C.J. Stroud 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 Jalen Hurts as the more valuable of the two.

37
Deals they were both in
4
Straight up, one for one
10 / 1
One side sweetened: C.J. Stroud / Jalen Hurts

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 C.J. Stroud prices at 1,486 and Jalen Hurts at 3,725, so the market currently rates Jalen Hurts about 2.5x 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 C.J. StroudWent with Jalen Hurts
2026-06-26-29%Bhayshul Tuten, Jordan Love, Drake London, 1 more, 1 3rdAJ Barner, Oronde Gadsden, DeVonta Smith, 2 more, 1 2nd
2026-06-15-30%Ricky Pearsall, Colby Parkinson, 2 1stsChris Godwin, Rhamondre Stevenson, Chris Olave
2026-03-08-4%1 1st1 3rd
2026-02-17+23%Brian Thomas, 1 2nd
2025-07-31-33%3 1sts, 1 2ndAlvin Kamara, Amon-Ra St. Brown
2025-07-23-12%Adonai Mitchell, 1 2nd
2025-07-08-18%Tahj Brooks, Kyler Murray, 1 3rd, 1 later pick1 2nd, 1 3rd
2025-06-21+17%1 1st
2025-05-31+16%1 1st
2025-05-13-2%Chris Olave, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rdPuka Nacua

Read each row as: C.J. Stroud, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jalen Hurts 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 C.J. Stroud; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 37, the whole-deal value gap runs -0.2% from the side that received C.J. Stroud - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is C.J. Stroud for Jalen Hurts 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 37 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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