Notre Dame alum Brandon Aubrey sets NFL kicking record with Dallas Cowboys
Brandon Aubrey didn’t envision breaking any NFL records when he arrived at Notre Dame in 2013. He was the No. 24 overall soccer recruit in his class according to College Soccer News.
Football wasn’t in his future. It is now. The 28-year-old is one of the best place kickers in the NFL.
Aubrey set a new NFL record with his 19 consecutive field goal makes to begin a career with a 51-yarder for the Dallas Cowboys in hostile territory against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. The Cowboys lost, 28-23, but Aubrey’s field goal put them ahead 17-14 late in the first half. It was a big kick at the time.
Aubrey went into the game tied with Travis Coons, who made 18 field goals for the Cleveland Browns to begin his career in 2015. The 2013 national champion with the Notre Dame men’s soccer team now holds the record on his own, and he might not be done.
Even though he doinked an extra point through the uprights Sunday, Aubrey is showing no signs of inaccurate kicking coming any time soon. The only kick he’s missed all year was the first extra point he attempted on opening night in the wind and rain at Metlife Stadium. Aubrey is 19-of-20 on extra points and 19-of-19 on field goals.
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Aubrey was drafted 21st overall by Toronto FC in the 2017 MLS SuperDraft after a successful career at Notre Dame. He was the Fighting Irish’s team MVP as a senior in 2016, as a well as an All-ACC first-teamer. He took home various All-America nods that season as well. He scored nine goals and registered 19 points as a defender after notching three goals in each of the previous two seasons.
Aubrey never appeared in an MLS game, though. He spent a season with Toronto’s minor league team and another with the Bethlehem Steel, the Philadelphia Union’s reserve team. A short pro soccer career came to an end when he was released after the 2018 season. He retired and went into software engineering, according to Joseph Hoyt of LoneStarLive.com, putting that Notre Dame degree to work.
Soon thereafter, though, he put his leg back to work by reaching out to a kicking coach in the Dallas area. Aubrey got good enough under Brian Egan‘s guidance to make 32-of-37 field goal attempts with the Birmingham Stallions, back-to-back USFL champions. The Cowboys caught wind of the local product’s success, allowed him to enter a kicking competition with Tristan Vizcaino, and the rest is history.
Aubrey is rewriting it now.
