Jared Goff and Kirk Cousins have been on opposite sides of 22 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 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 2 between the Jared Goff 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 Jared Goff prices at 884 and Kirk Cousins at 25, so the market currently rates Jared Goff about 35.4x 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 Jared Goff | Went with Kirk Cousins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-08 | -53% | Jerry Jeudy, Chris Godwin, Jalen Tolbert, 13 more, 1 1st, 1 2nd | Dak Prescott, Tee Higgins, Alec Pierce, 11 more, 1 3rd, 1 later pick |
| 2026-05-29 | -104% | Parker Washington | Ladd McConkey |
| 2025-05-06 | +91% | Christian McCaffrey, 2 2nds | Michael Penix, Najee Harris, 1 later pick |
| 2024-11-17 | -150% | 1 2nd, 1 3rd | Jaylen Waddle |
| 2024-08-21 | +72% | — | Sam Darnold |
| 2024-05-15 | +9% | Kenneth Walker | Erick All, Noah Fant, Kyren Williams |
| 2024-05-01 | +2% | Pat Freiermuth, 1 3rd | David Njoku, Curtis Samuel, 1 3rd |
| 2023-12-04 | -22% | Christian Kirk | Davante Adams, Joe Mixon, Baker Mayfield |
| 2023-11-23 | +88% | Joshua Palmer, 1 later pick | 1 2nd, 1 3rd |
| 2023-11-21 | -7% | 1 2nd | 1 1st |
Read each row as: Jared Goff, 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 Jared Goff; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 22, the whole-deal value gap runs +5.6% from the side that received Jared Goff, so the side ending up with Jared Goff 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 Jared Goff 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 22 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.
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