Dan Bailey is an American Football placekicker, born on 26th January 1988 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He is currently playing for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL), with whom he signed as an undrafted free agent after the 2011 NFL Draft. He is the kicker with the second highest field goal accuracy in NFL history, and was the most accurate kicker in 2015.
Dan Bailey’s overall net worth is estimated to be around $4 million, accumulated through an extraordinarily successful professional career in sports, which he started in 2011. Since he still actively plays American Football, his net worth continues to increase.
Although born in Oklahoma City, Dan was raised in Mustang, Oklahoma where he attended Southwest Covenant School. During his schooling, he was an all-state, all-conference kicker, and was selected by The Oklahoman as the first-team all-city punter. In addition, he holds the high school state records for most field goals in a season, career and for the longest field goal. An individual state champion golfer too, Bailey graduated as valedictorian of his class.
Dan’s professional career started in 2011 when the Dallas Cowboys signed him as an unlimited free agent, after the 2011 NFL Draft. By the end of the preseason, he was named the team’s kicker and soon broke the rookie record by converting six field goals in one game, just the third rookie in NFL history to record such a performance, and which earned him an NFC Special Teams Player of the Week award. He subsequently reached the position of third player in the club’s history with career field goals – 77 – and set the franchise record for most field goals over 50 yards in career and a single season.
Privately, Dan has been married to Krista Bailey since 2011, who he met while studying at Oklahoma State University.