C.J. Stroud and Jayden Daniels have been on opposite sides of 23 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 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 5 times it was the C.J. Stroud side (0 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Jayden Daniels 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 C.J. Stroud prices at 1,486 and Jayden Daniels at 4,581, so the market currently rates Jayden Daniels about 3.1x 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 C.J. Stroud | Went with Jayden Daniels |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-18 | +10% | Geno Smith, Davante Adams, Derrick Henry, 1 more, 1 1st | Demond Claiborne, Chris Brazzell, 2 2nds, 2 3rds |
| 2026-05-28 | -29% | Ricky Pearsall, Kirk Cousins, 1 2nd | Michael Trigg, Tank Bigsby |
| 2026-05-07 | -22% | 1 1st, 1 2nd | 1 1st |
| 2026-03-12 | +16% | Christian McCaffrey | — |
| 2026-03-10 | +7% | Isaiah Bond, Garrett Wilson | 1 2nd |
| 2026-02-27 | +14% | Azeez Al-Shaair, 1 1st | Jordan Magee |
| 2025-11-11 | -18% | Rico Dowdle, Nico Collins | Terry McLaurin, Garrett Wilson |
| 2025-08-28 | +43% | Stefon Diggs, Saquon Barkley, CeeDee Lamb | Bucky Irving, Matthew Golden, Darnell Mooney, 1 2nd |
| 2025-07-16 | +14% | 1 1st, 1 2nd | Jauan Jennings, 1 later pick |
| 2025-07-13 | +50% | Drake Maye, Tyjae Spears, Zach Charbonnet | Keenan Allen, Cam Akers |
Read each row as: C.J. Stroud, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jayden Daniels 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.
Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +19.0% from the side that received C.J. Stroud, so the side ending up with C.J. Stroud 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 C.J. Stroud for Jayden Daniels 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 23 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
How trade fairness actually works →
Every C.J. Stroud trade · Every Jayden Daniels trade
All players with real trade data →