Aubrey Delivers 4 Field Goals, Including 64-yarder, as Dallas Survives New York in OT Thriller

Former soccer player Brandon Aubrey nailed all four field goals in Dallas’ 40-37 overtime win, with his coach saying a 70-yard kick would be within reach.

Brandon Aubrey #17 of the Dallas Cowboys kicks a field goal in overtime in the game against the New York Giants at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Sept. 14, 2025. Sam Hodde/Getty Images

Dallas Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer said he would have let kicker Brandon Aubrey kick a 70-yard field goal.

Aubrey was a marksman for the Cowboys in their 40-37 overtime win over the New York Giants; he was 4/4 on field goals, with makes from 51, 44, 64, and 46 yards out. Schottenheimer said after the win that his 64-yarder at the end of regulation would have been good from 70 yards out. He said that Aubrey has consistent confidence in his ability to make field goals from that distance.

“He’s incredible, man,” Schottenheimer said at Sunday’s postgame press conference. “I mean, he really is. He’s incredible and just unshakable. We see it every day from him. But I mean those are big kicks, man...I kind of can tell whether they’re going in or not, but I think most of them were right dead center. And the operation was great, too. I mean, just the protection part was great, the snap, the hold. But yes, what a weapon.”

Aubrey’s first field goal, a 51-yarder, put Dallas on the scoreboard with just under 8:30 left to play in the second quarter. His second came in the fourth quarter with 14:16 left to play to put the Cowboys up 20-16. After the two teams traded blows back and forth, the Giants took a 37-34 lead on a deep bomb from quarterback Russell Wilson to wide receiver Malik Nabers. The Cowboys started their final drive from their own 33-yard line with 14 seconds left to play. Prescott threw a strike to tight end Jake Ferguson right at midfield, then the team called a timeout. With 5 seconds left, Aubrey tied the game with a 64-yard field goal to send the game to overtime.

The kick had enough height to be good from farther away than 64 yards, and Schottenheimer said his kicker has the confidence to make it from farther.

“We would try from 70ish,” he said. “I mean, we’ve seen him make those before. We always want to try to get as close as we can, but he’s always like, ‘yeah, I’m good’...Dak’s always like, ‘Oh, hey, what’s the line to make?’ I’m like, ‘yeah, 50-ish.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, okay. Well, that’s like a 67, 70-yard field goal. Like, that’s cool.’ So there’s really not [a limit], but the confidence that you see the guy kick with is just incredible.”

Each team had a drive stall out in overtime. Dallas went three-and-out on their second possession of the overtime period. But Wilson launched a pass to Nabers too far inside, and was intercepted by safety Donovan Wilson. With two minutes left in overtime, Dallas drove all the way down to the New York 28-yard line, and Aubrey kicked a 46-yard attempt to win the game.

Aubrey said after the game that his pregame warmups are usually not a good indicator of how far he can kick in the game, but said he can make any kick “within reason” when the coaches call him out.

A college soccer player at the University of Notre Dame, Aubrey was drafted by Toronto FC of Major League Soccer. He played a year for them, then a year with a minor league team, Bethlehem Steel FC. After going back to college to earn a degree and training in placekicking, Aubrey was drafted by the Birmingham Stallions of the USFL spring football league in 2022. Aubrey won back-to-back USFL Championships with the Stallions; he went 18 of 22 on field goals in 2022 and 14 of 15 in 2023.

He signed with the Cowboys after the 2023 spring football season. In 2023, he made 36 of his 38 attempts with a long of 60 yards, and 49 of 52 on extra point attempts. He led the NFL in points with 157 and kickoffs with 109, and set the NFL record for most touchbacks in a season with 99. He followed it up in 2024 with a 40/47 mark on field goals with a long of 65, which led the league and set a franchise record. He made all 30 of his extra points for a total of 150 points.

Aubrey was also an NFL record holder, briefly. His 66-yard make in a preseason game in 2024 was the longest ever recorded in a preseason game, and tied the NFL record for a made field goal. But that record was usurped in the 2025 preseason by Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little, who kicked a 70-yard field goal to set the preseason record, as well as the all-time record for longest field goal in the history of the sport.