“I grew up here and I love the organization,” Aubrey said. “I wanted to be back.”
A dutiful reminder of Aubrey’s road to now is in order here, most certainly:
Nine years ago, Aubrey was playing professional soccer in Toronto.
Eight years ago, he was in Pennsylvania looking to extend his soccer career, but that didn’t go as planned either, and he wound up using his Notre Dame degree to become a software engineer.
Seven years ago, Aubrey heard four fateful words that changed his life’s trajectory, when he and his wife watched an NFL kicker miss a field goal only for her to turn to him and say, ‘You could do that.”
He went to a local football field, discovered he could make 60-yarders (easily), and linked with Brian Egan, former Mississippi State kicker and kicking coach, three times a week, for three years, before being brought on by the UFL’s Birmingham Stallions as their placekicker, the USFL scoring leader in the same season he was named to the All-USFL team (2022)..
That’s where John “Bones” Fassel, the special teams coordinator for the Cowboys at the time, discovered him and brought him home to Dallas — or, more accurately, to Southern California to compete with Tristan Vizcaino and Lirim Hajrullahu in training camp in Oxnard.
Hajrullahu was released, and Vizcaino eventually lost out to Aubrey and, four years ago, the young boy from Plano was heading back to Dallas, where the former NFL scoring leader (2023) has already become one of the league’s best kickers of all-time; and with only three seasons on his resume; and, one day ago (from this article being written), Aubrey made history, securing his family’s future in the process.