Greg Hardy’s Unemployment Is a Sign of Progress for the NFL

March 17, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Greg Hardy will eventually sign with an NFL team.
Bleacher Report's Jason Cole reported Wednesday that teams are starting to snoop around Hardy, albeit anonymously. At some point, a team will offer him a modest deal with few guarantees and lots of incentives. It will be a one- or two-year deal, three at the absolute most, perhaps with some phony-baloney money on the back end. Hardy will receive a few million dollars to play football in the NFL next year.
He will not get the elite pass-rusher money his peers have received, though. And that qualifies as progress for NFL teams. 
An outstanding pass-rusher in his prime without baggage or injuries can fetch $52.5 million guaranteed, as Olivier Vernon demonstrated last week. Add in some questions, and there's less money, but still plenty. Mario Williams decided last year that Rex Ryan's defense did not deserve his full effort and attention, yet the Dolphins just handed him almost $12 million guara...

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