Deadline passes for outside teams to sign kicker Brandon Aubrey
FRISCO, Texas – The deadline has handed for teams to submit supply sheets for Cowboys restricted free agent kicker Brandon Aubrey.
Aubrey, 30, grew to become a restricted free agent following his third season with the Cowboys in 2025. On March 7, Dallas formally positioned the second-round tender on Aubrey, and now the All-Pro kicker has restricted choices. He can sign his one-year, $5.76 million tender, he and the Cowboys can come to a long-term contract settlement, or Dallas can elect to commerce him.
Earlier in March, Aubrey described his negotiations with the Cowboys as in a ““waiting pattern” while Dallas was sifting through external and internal free agents. That is more or less where things will remain on a long-term extension, as the two sides are still able to negotiate a long-term deal if they choose to do so.
“Obviously, Dallas is my residence,” Aubrey said at the Arlington Grand Prix on March 11. “I’d like to hold it that means, so it will be good to get a long-term deal going. Just want to sit down and have that dialog.”
At the NFL Owners Meetings in Phoenix, Arizona, Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones said that he was satisfied with Aubrey playing on the tender for the 2026 season, but that the team would still look towards getting a long-term deal done.
“I might say that I’m happy in need of the place we’re with him signing the tender supply. I’m happy the place we’re there,” Jones said on March 31. “I’m not going to get into what it will take as a result of that is clearly nonetheless topic of a negotiation, however we do have long-term plans.”
Cowboys COO/co-owner Stephen Jones called the negotiations “a journey” at the NFL Combine, and that will continue for the time being as Aubrey heads into his fourth NFL season. Should he meet the necessary requirements for an accumulated season (reporting to training camp and playing in at least six regular season games) and not sign a long-term deal beforehand, Aubrey will pick up his fourth accumulated season following 2026 and become an unrestricted free agent next offseason.
In each of his first three years with the Cowboys, Aubrey has earned a Pro Bowl nod, the first kicker in franchise history to make three consecutive Pro Bowls. For his career, Aubrey has made 112 of his 127 field goal attempts for an 88.2% field goal make percentage.
The 2025 season was one which noticed Aubrey re-writing the NFL historical past books at his place. On the 12 months, Aubrey made three 60+ yard area objectives, probably the most in a single season in NFL historical past. Against the Lions, Aubrey hit three 50+ yard area objectives, the primary participant in NFL historical past to accomplish that feat in a single recreation. He additionally grew to become the primary kicker in NFL historical past with 10 or extra 50+ yard area objectives made in three seasons.
