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The Dallas Cowboys and Greg Hardy have agreed to the final terms of the latter's contract. Hardy will play with the cowboys for a year with a contract amounting to $13.1 million.
This contract is built based on the player's per game roster bonuses and incentives. With these, Hardy will be able to make $1.8 million every single sack threshold and $9.25 million for each of his games. The team has also agreed not to make use of his transition tag or franchise after the 2015 season, implying that he'll be free-agent the season after.
Hardy, in several reports, has drawn interest in numerous teams' offers, but was most recently associated to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who has also suggested that they have got no interest in franchising the pass rusher, anymore, the Bucs Nation reported. Jason Licht, the Buc's general manager, revealed that his team did not feel good about their plan of buying out Hardy.
Adding Hardy to the Cowboys will boost the team's defense, which has not actually featured a strong, legitimate pass rusher in the previous year. Jeremy Mincey led the team with six sacks, a number that Hardy is able to outplay, after his six-game suspension following a domestic incident in February.
While the case has been dismissed by the court, he remains on the exempt list of the commissioner until the NFL releases its own findings on the case. The league, however, has announced that the pass rusher is still permitted to sign for a brand new contract.
