STWF Sports | DALLAS | Dec. 13, 2025 — When Jalen Redmond steps onto the field for Sunday Night Football, he won’t just be appearing on the NFL’s biggest weekly stage — he’ll be returning to the place where his professional football journey truly began. Arlington was the springboard, the proving ground, and the launchpad that transformed Redmond from a talented prospect into one of the NFL’s rising defensive stars.

Now, the former Dallas Renegades standout is back in the city that believed in him first.

Redmond headlines a night that will showcase not one, but two United Football League alumni making major NFL impacts: Redmond and All-Pro kicking sensation Brandon Aubrey. Their primetime meeting is more than a game — it’s a celebration of the UFL’s growing reputation as the premier development league in modern football.

REDMOND’S UFL ROOTS FUEL NFL BREAKOUT

Redmond’s ascent has been one of the league’s great success stories.

After dominating the 2024 season with the Renegades, the former Oklahoma Sooner used the UFL as a runway to springboard into the NFL. He earned a camp invite, landed on the Minnesota Vikings’ practice squad, and within weeks forced his way onto the active roster.

From there, he never looked back.

This season, Redmond has become one of the NFL’s most disruptive interior defenders. Through 13 games, he has totaled:

• 49 tackles

• 5.0 sacks

• 3 pass breakups

• Numerous game-altering pressures

Analysts across the league now describe him as one of the most explosive young defensive linemen in football — with legitimate Pro Bowl buzz surrounding his name.

For Redmond, the return to Arlington is personal. It’s where he reinvented his career. It’s where he proved he belonged. And now, he returns as proof that the UFL pipeline works.

AUBREY: FROM SPRING FOOTBALL TO NFL RECORD BOOKS

While Redmond was terrorizing quarterbacks in the trenches, Brandon Aubrey was quietly forging one of the most improbable NFL success stories of the decade.

A two-time modern spring football champion with the Birmingham Stallions, Aubrey entered the NFL in 2024 and rewrote history. The former MLS soccer player-turned-kicker shattered records immediately, including:

• Most consecutive made field goals to start a career

• Most 60-plus-yard field goals in NFL history

Today, Aubrey is considered one of the most accurate and most dangerous long-range kickers in the league. NFL coaches call him “automatic.” Opponents call him “game-changing.” His rise stands as one of the clearest examples of what quality spring football development can produce.

A SHOWCASE FOR THE UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Based in Arlington itself, the UFL has rapidly become the top alternative pathway to the NFL — a league defined by opportunity, player development, and second chances. Dozens of UFL players have earned NFL contracts since its launch, but Redmond and Aubrey represent something rare:

Two players who didn’t just make rosters — they became stars.

Their Sunday night showdown is a testament to the UFL’s vision coming to life.

THE SPOTLIGHT RETURNS TO ARLINGTON

Sunday Night Football has always been the NFL’s biggest stage, but for Redmond, it will feel like a homecoming. The stadium lights, the familiar turf, the fans who watched him rise — all of it marks a full-circle moment for one of the league’s fastest-growing defensive forces.

The Renegades believed in him. The UFL developed him. The NFL discovered him.

And now, football fans everywhere will watch him in primetime as a symbol of a new era in player development.

Two UFL alumni.
Two breakout NFL stars.
One stage worthy of their journey.

Sunday night in Arlington will not just be a game — it will be a showcase of what modern spring football has become.