Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey can now no longer negotiate with other teams
Dallas Cowboys three-time Pro Bowl kicker Brandon Aubrey can no longer negotiate with other teams for a new contract after the 3 p.m. deadline passed without Aubrey receiving an offer sheet from another team.
Per the rules of NFL restricted free agency, Aubrey could sign an offer sheet with another team if that team was willing to give the Cowboys a second-round pick in return. No team gave enough interest to put forth an offer sheet, meaning the Cowboys can now exclusively negotiate a new contract with Aubrey.
However, the Cowboys don’t have to offer Aubrey a contract to retain his services for 2026. Since they offered Aubrey a second-round tender at the start of free agency, he can play for the season on a one-year, $5.811 million contract and test the unrestricted free agency waters next offseason. He could also hold out from signing the tender and wait on a long-term contract from the Cowboys, even though they have offered multiple contracts dating back to last August that would have made him the league’s highest-paid kicker.
“I would say that I’m satisfied short of where we are with him signing the tender offer. I’m satisfied where we are there,” owner Jerry Jones said last month. “I’m not going to get into what it would take [to sign him] because that’s obviously still subject of a negotiation, but we do have long-term plans.”
“Obviously, Dallas is my home,” Aubrey said at a public appearance last month. “I’d like to keep it that way, so it would be nice to get a long-term deal going. Just need to sit down and have that conversation.”
In his first three seasons with the Cowboys, Aubrey became the first kicker in franchise history to make three consecutive Pro Bowls. He has converted 112 of his 127 field goal attempts and has set the franchise record for the longest made field goal at 65 yards.
