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Is Kirk Cousins for Russell Wilson fair?

Kirk Cousins and Russell Wilson have been on opposite sides of 37 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. 3 of them were straight up: Kirk Cousins for Russell Wilson, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 10 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 8 of those 10 times it was the Kirk Cousins side (2 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Russell Wilson as the more valuable of the two.

37
Deals they were both in
3
Straight up, one for one
8 / 2
One side sweetened: Kirk Cousins / Russell Wilson
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Kirk CousinsWent with Russell Wilson
2025-11-05+76%Matthew Stafford, Saquon Barkley, DeMario DouglasMichael Wilson, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2025-06-05+1%Erick All, Matthew Golden, Omarion Hampton, 2 more, 1 1stJameis Winston, Javonte Williams, Pat Freiermuth, 1 more
2025-01-12+77%Jaleel McLaughlin, Pierre Strong, Dylan Laube, 16 more, 2 1sts, 2 2ndsJauan Jennings, Tua Tagovailoa, Michael Wilson, 15 more, 1 later pick
2024-09-02+83%Taysom Hill1 2nd
2024-05-28+14%Braelon Allen, Ben Sinnott, Jermaine BurtonJustin Fields, 2 2nds
2024-04-21-70%Luke Schoonmaker, 1 2nd, 1 later pickDontayvion Wicks, 1 1st, 1 3rd
2024-03-12+16%1 later pickNoah Fant, Keaton Mitchell
2023-12-15-8%Jerry JeudyTyler Lockett
2023-12-08-37%Parker Washington
2023-11-18-12%2 3rds

Read each row as: Kirk Cousins, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Russell Wilson 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 Kirk Cousins; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 37, the whole-deal value gap runs +0.9% from the side that received Kirk Cousins - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is Kirk Cousins for Russell Wilson 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 37 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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Values from DynastyProcess and nflverse. Trades from public Sleeper leagues. When the data will not support a fair grade I leave it out and say so. Is this trade fair? · All players · Privacy · Terms