{"id":794332,"date":"2026-03-05T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/794332\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:33:12","slug":"cowboys-k-brandon-aubrey-on-restricted-free-agent-tender-its-not-the-ideal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/794332\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys K Brandon Aubrey on restricted free agent tender: &#8216;It&#8217;s not the ideal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Aubrey&#8217;s winding path to the NFL, from Major League Soccer to the USFL to the Cowboys, he&#8217;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&#8217;s a rounding error for Jones. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/dak-prescott\/\" title=\"Dak Prescott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dak Prescott<\/a> earns more in three weeks on his $60 million contract than Aubrey did in three years.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t match, the club would receive the signing team&#8217;s second-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, the tender is what the Cowboys have talked about, and it&#8217;s a good problem to have,&#8221; Aubrey said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a good amount of money and it&#8217;s a big pay raise from before, but it&#8217;s not the ideal for any player. We&#8217;ll see what happens. I&#8217;m excited to be in this position. It&#8217;s an opportunity for me &#8230; so I&#8217;m thankful for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Cowboys offseason never disappoints. Even when it comes to the kicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Aubrey&#8217;s winding path to the NFL, from Major League Soccer to the USFL to the Cowboys, he&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,6203,257,7,88,6,609,4267],"class_list":{"0":"post-794332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-brandon-aubrey","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-offseason-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116178007574823014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}