The rookie placekicker is 30-for-30 on field goal attempts this season, making four in the Cowboy’s Sunday night win over the Eagles

Dallas Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey, once an MLS defender and software engineer, is continuing his star turn as an NFL kicker.

Aubrey is 30-for-30 on field goal attempts this season, becoming the first player in NFL history to make the first 30 field goal attempts of his career. He reached the milestone with a stellar night on Sunday, hitting field goals of 60, 59, 50 and 45 yards and becoming the first kicker in NFL history to make two kicks from 59 or more yards in the same game in the Cowboys’ 33-13 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday Night Football.

After his 19th straight field goal in November, Aubrey officially broke the NFL record for most consecutive field goals to start his career.

But Aubrey’s path to the NFL had some unusual turns: The 28-year-old rookie played soccer at Notre Dame and was drafted by MLS’s Toronto FC in 2017. Aubrey was kept at Toronto’s second-tier affiliate for a year, then bounced to Philadelphia Union affiliate Bethlehem Steel FC; when he was released in 2018, he used his Notre Dame degree to become a software engineer.

Aubrey, who played football in middle school before turning his full attention to soccer, started transitioning to the NFL in 2019. He and his wife watched an NFL placekicker miss a field goal attempt, and she told him four ultimately inspiring words: “You could do that.”

Now, he is doing that, at an unprecedented level.

Aubrey is not only perfect in field goal attempts, but is also eight-for-eight on field goals of 50 yards or longer. He has only missed three PATs this season. Between field goals and extra points, Aubrey has 129 points this season — ninth among the Cowboys’ point scorers.

When it comes to the Cowboys’ 10-3 season, it’s easy to focus on the dominance of quarterback Dak Prescott. But the truth is that Dallas has another star in its back pocket; and as the Cowboys continue to dominate, there’s nowhere for Aubrey to go but up.