Brandon Aubrey Madden Career 2024-2026 - Peak 87 OVR

Brandon Aubrey has the strangest path on the roster. He was a soccer player first, a national champion at Notre Dame and a first-round MLS SuperDraft pick of Toronto FC, before the pro soccer career stalled and he taught himself to kick a football. He ground through the USFL, won titles in Birmingham, and finally made the Cowboys in 2023 as a rookie kicker at an age when most kickers are established.

He was excellent immediately, and the Madden card scrambled to catch a specialist nobody had scouted. He opened at a 71, the default number for an unknown, then jumped to an 82 and an 87 peak as he made everything, an All-Pro rookie season, a field-goal streak that opened his career, and a leg that connected from 65 yards, one of the longest makes the league has seen. The grade chased a kicker who had turned an accuracy-and-power combination into a genuine weapon.

Aubrey became the rare kicker defenses actually plan around, a threat from distances that used to be automatic punts, a three-time Pro Bowler already. For a man who was playing professional soccer a few years earlier, the climb from a 71 unknown to one of the highest-rated kickers in the game is one of the odder and better stories in football, a second athletic life that turned out to be the real one.