The reported details of the Dallas Cowboys, Brandon Aubrey contract exchange

ARLINGTON, TX - SEPTEMBER 14: Brandon Aubrey #17 of the Dallas Cowboys walks off of the field after an NFL football game against the New York Giants at AT&T Field on September 14, 2025 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images) | Getty Images

It doesn't truly feel like the offseason until we have some drama surrounding the Dallas Cowboys and a contract situation. The proverbial ice broke this week at the NFL combine. If I'd told you a few weeks ago that this would be the case you would have likely assumed that the player at hand would have been wide receiver George Pickens.

You would have been wrong. Brandon Aubrey is the center of this particular saga.

Here are reported details of the back and forth between Dallas and Aubrey

This week has brought forth some consternation, but within that there have also been several details. Reports from The Dallas Morning News and DLLS Sports have indicated that that the Cowboys had an offer out to make Aubrey the highest-paid kicker in the NFL. At the moment, Kansas City's Harrison Butker leads the way with an APY of $6.4M so highest-paid" could have been anything north of that.

It was reported that Aubrey's camp asked for $10M annually which is obviously a sizable leap. For what it's worth, Aubrey refuted those claims on social media which officially meant that we had a back and forth going on. The story became a matter of which side you believed more.

Early Thursday morning we got a little bit of clarity on the matter by way of Clarence Hill. He noted that the Cowboys made the highest-paid" offer back in September and that Aubrey's representation (Todd France, who also represents Dak Prescott and we all know how those negotiations went) countered at $10M to table talks until this week.

The Dallas Cowboys offered to make Brandon Aubrey the highest paid kicker in the NFL last September, surpassing the $6.4 million annual salary of Harrison Butker. Per source, the Cowboys did not offer Aubrey $7.5 million or even $7 million. But it was more than Butker. Per...

- Clarence Hill Jr (@clarencehilljr) February 26, 2026

If you expand Clarence's post you can see that France shut down conversations until getting on the Cowboys' team bus while at the NFL combine. France posted about that on social media on Wednesday.

Todd France, who represents #Cowboys Brandon Aubrey, posted a video on IG of the Jerry Bus and a description to go along with it:

The NFL combine...where misinformation spreads like wildfire. Looking forward to my meeting with the Cowboys on the bus. #Aubrey"#DallasCowboyspic.twitter.com/37NqW7OkUw

- Brandon Loree (@Brandoniswrite) February 25, 2026

The TL;DR here seems to be that the Cowboys offered Brandon Aubrey a deal that made him the top paid kicker in the NFL (in some capacity, obviously we don't know the details) and that France (this is my interpretation here, not the report) may have countered with a number that was obviously farfetched in the name of punting to a later point in question. We now seem to be at that point.

What could be the hold up if the Cowboys made an offer of the reported variety? Perhaps it is the guarantee involved. Maybe it is the length of the deal. Those details certainly matter and would provide context.