Deshaun Watson and Kirk Cousins have been on opposite sides of 25 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.
In 1 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 0 to 1 between the Deshaun Watson side and the Kirk Cousins 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 Deshaun Watson prices at 37 and Kirk Cousins at 25, so the market currently rates Deshaun Watson about 1.5x 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.
| Date | Margin | Went with Deshaun Watson | Went with Kirk Cousins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-08 | -53% | Joe Milton, Efton Chism, Kimani Vidal, 9 more, 2 2nds, 1 3rd, 1 later pick | Dak Prescott, Tee Higgins, Alec Pierce, 11 more, 1 3rd, 1 later pick |
| 2025-11-26 | +123% | Alec Pierce | DeAndre Hopkins |
| 2025-07-06 | -44% | Jared Wiley, Bub Means, Ryan Flournoy, 8 more, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 later pick | Frank Gore, Will Shipley, Theo Johnson, 6 more, 1 2nd |
| 2024-12-03 | -70% | Jameis Winston, Jerry Jeudy, 1 2nd | 1 1st |
| 2024-11-15 | -83% | Xavier Hutchinson, Kendrick Bourne, Mecole Hardman, 1 2nd, 1 later pick | Nick Chubb, Aaron Rodgers |
| 2024-10-20 | +106% | A.J. Brown, De'Von Achane | Chris Godwin, Trey Sermon, Tyler Goodson |
| 2024-08-31 | -30% | Travis Kelce, Amari Cooper, Raheem Mostert, 2 more | Jonathon Brooks, Blake Corum, Dalton Schultz, 2 more |
| 2024-05-16 | -30% | Michael Thomas, Cooper Kupp, Gerald Everett | 1 1st, 1 3rd |
| 2024-04-19 | -21% | J.K. Dobbins, Pat Freiermuth, 2 later picks | Calvin Ridley, 1 2nd, 1 3rd |
| 2024-01-22 | -69% | 1 3rd | 1 1st |
Read each row as: Deshaun Watson, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Kirk Cousins 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 Deshaun Watson; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 25, the whole-deal value gap runs -2.4% from the side that received Deshaun Watson - 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 Deshaun Watson for Kirk Cousins 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 25 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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