James Cook and Joe Mixon have been on opposite sides of 24 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. 1 of them were straight up: James Cook for Joe Mixon, nothing else changing hands.
In 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 2 between the James Cook side and the Joe Mixon 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 James Cook prices at 7,092 and Joe Mixon at 3, so the market currently rates James Cook about 2364.0x 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 2026-09-04.
| Date | Margin | Went with James Cook | Went with Joe Mixon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-27 | +33% | Keenan Allen | DJ Moore |
| 2025-08-27 | +90% | — | AJ Barner, Jacory Croskey-Merritt |
| 2025-07-18 | +71% | Romeo Doubs, Isaiah Likely | E.J. Speed, Jake Ferguson, Wan'Dale Robinson |
| 2025-05-02 | -36% | Calvin Ridley | 1 1st |
| 2025-04-20 | +79% | 1 1st | Devin Neal, Jayden Higgins, Stefon Diggs |
| 2025-03-22 | +59% | A.J. Brown | Jakobi Meyers, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 later pick |
| 2025-02-20 | +40% | Jaxon Smith-Njigba, 1 3rd | Brandon Aiyuk, Rhamondre Stevenson, 1 2nd |
| 2025-01-12 | -2% | CeeDee Lamb, Kenneth Walker, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, 1 more, 1 later pick | Marvin Harrison, Malik Nabers, Austin Ekeler, 2 more |
| 2024-11-06 | +59% | — | — |
| 2024-08-27 | -38% | Brian Thomas, 1 later pick | Chris Olave, Ty Chandler |
Read each row as: James Cook, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Joe Mixon 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 James Cook; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 24, the whole-deal value gap runs +3.8% from the side that received James Cook, so the side ending up with James Cook 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 James Cook for Joe Mixon 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 24 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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