Brandon Kaufman (born October 26, 1990) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver.

[7] Kaufman played as a true freshman in 2009 for the Eastern Washington Eagles, a Football Championship Subdivision school (formerly Division I-AA), seeing action in nine games, including five as a starter.

[7] Before the 2011 season began, he was named to the 28-member Athlon College Football Preview preseason All-America team, a pre-season First-team All-American by Phil Steele’s FCS College Football Preview, one of the top 10 wide receivers in FCS by The Sports Network, one of the top 38 receivers by the College Football Performance Awards, All-Big Sky Conference, and first-team All-BSC by Phil Steele.

[11] However, four games into the season he broke a metacarpal in his left hand against Montana State in September.

[1] Before the 2012 season began, he was named a preseason third-team All-American by The Sports Network and AnyGivenSaturday.com, chosen as ont of the top 10 FCS wide receivers by The Sports Network, chosen as the # 6 FCS wide receiver by Phil Steele’s FCS College Football Preview, named preseason All-Big Sky Conference, and listed by Phil Steele as a second-team preseason All-Big Sky selection.

Describing his mentality on the field, Kaufman said: You have to think you’re better than the other person, and trust what you’re doing all week and all year, studying film and what you’re working on in practice.

[2][8] On January 9, 2013, local TV station KREM announced that Kaufman would forgo his final season of eligibility at Eastern Washington, and declared for the 2013 NFL draft.

Sports projected that he might be taken by the New York Giants in the 7th round, saying he "has great size and will catch the football going across the middle".

[19] Kaufman went undrafted in the 2013 NFL draft but soon signed with the Buffalo Bills as a free agent on April 29, 2013.

Despite the advance warning allowing the defender to be in perfect position, Kaufman was still able to pull down the circus catch and get both feet in-bounds.

[27] Kaufman was recruited and signed by the Gold Coast Suns in 2016 to play for their reserves team in the North East Australian Football League.

[28] On April 24, 2016, Kaufman played his first game of Australian Rules Football for the Labrador Tigers reserves.

Upon return to the US, he played two seasons with the Denver Bulldogs of the United States Australian Football League[29] and was in consideration for the USA Revolution National Team scheduled to compete at the 2020 Australian Football International Cup before it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.