{"id":505676,"date":"2026-03-05T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/505676\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:19:07","slug":"cowboys-k-brandon-aubrey-on-restricted-free-agent-tender-its-not-the-ideal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/505676\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys K Brandon Aubrey on restricted free agent tender: ‘It’s not the ideal’"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Aubrey’s winding path to the NFL, from Major League Soccer to the USFL to the Cowboys, he’s in a low-level contract situation. Despite making the Pro Bowl and being named first- or second-team All-Pro in all three of his seasons, Aubrey has earned $2.695 million total, averaging $898,333 per year. That’s a rounding error for Jones. Dak Prescott<\/a> earns more in three weeks on his $60 million contract than Aubrey did in three years.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys are poised to use a second-round tender on Aubrey, with the one-year payday coming in at $5.81 million. That would make him the third-highest paid kicker in the league. A team could sign Aubrey to a contract, but the Cowboys would have a chance to match the deal. If Dallas didn’t match, the club would receive the signing team’s second-round pick.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, the tender is what the Cowboys have talked about, and it’s a good problem to have,” Aubrey said. “It’s a good amount of money and it’s a big pay raise from before, but it’s not the ideal for any player. We’ll see what happens. I’m excited to be in this position. It’s an opportunity for me … so I’m thankful for that.”<\/p>\n

A Cowboys offseason never disappoints. Even when it comes to the kicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Aubrey’s winding path to the NFL, from Major League Soccer to the USFL to the Cowboys, he’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6255,79038,1816,3,349,6257,215714,99],"class_list":["post-505676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-brandon-aubrey","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}