The Dallas Cowboys do not plan on losing kicker Brandon Aubrey. It was reported on Sunday evening by The Dallas Morning News that the Cowboys, according to team EVP Stephen Jones, have been working on a long-term deal with the all-world kicker and that they are prepared to place a first- or second-round tender before he hits the open market should things come to that.
Now that running back Javonte Williams has agreed to terms, the Cowboys are in talks to extend the contract of kicker Brandon Aubrey.
“We’ve been working on a long-term deal for some time,” Cowboys co-owner Stephen Jones told The Dallas Morning News on Sunday. “We’ve exchanged offers and the goal is to get him signed. We’ll tender him before the deadline if that’s what we have to decide.”
For those unaware, Aubrey is a free agent, but he is a restricted free agent. Should the Cowboys not have a deal in place with him before free agency begins then they can place a tender on him relative to a first- or second-round pick. In that hypothetical a team could negotiate a deal with Aubrey, but the Cowboys would have the right of first refusal. If Dallas declined to match the offer then the team who made it to Aubrey would owe the Cowboys their draft pick according to the tender.
In a perfect world the situation would not reach that point. Last year the Cowboys managed to beat the proverbial clock with KaVontae Turpin as he was a restricted free agent. They also notably got in before the deadline with a deal for Osa Odighizuwa, although he was set to become an unrestricted free agent so the deadline in question was true free agency.
This is just a matter of when for the Cowboys. As you were.
