C.J. Stroud and Patrick Mahomes have been on opposite sides of 34 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 13 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 12 of those 13 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 Patrick Mahomes 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 Patrick Mahomes at 4,309, so the market currently rates Patrick Mahomes about 2.9x 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 Patrick Mahomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-01 | -10% | RJ Harvey, 1 2nd, 1 3rd | 2 3rds |
| 2025-11-26 | -18% | 1 1st | — |
| 2025-11-25 | -25% | Sam LaPorta, Tory Horton | Jonnu Smith, DK Metcalf |
| 2025-11-18 | -24% | Sam LaPorta, Tank Bigsby | Romeo Doubs |
| 2025-11-12 | -57% | Cam Skattebo, 1 2nd | Keenan Allen, Derrick Henry |
| 2025-11-06 | +7% | Harold Fannin, 1 1st | — |
| 2025-10-25 | -0% | Tee Higgins, 1 2nd | Mark Andrews |
| 2025-10-21 | -6% | Malik Nabers, Omarion Hampton | Ja'Marr Chase |
| 2025-09-24 | +0% | Tucker Kraft | — |
| 2025-08-27 | +18% | 1 1st, 2 2nds | — |
Read each row as: C.J. Stroud, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Patrick Mahomes 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 34, the whole-deal value gap runs -2.8% 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.
A calculator answers “is C.J. Stroud for Patrick Mahomes 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 34 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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