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Controversial free-agent pass rusher Greg Hardy worked out for the Jaguars last week, but remains unsigned. And according to team general manager David Caldwell, there are no plans to sign Hardy anytime soon.

"It was an opportunity for us," Caldwell said, via the Florida Times-Union. "Here was a guy who was a franchise defensive end that was on the street and we tried to find out the facts of where he's at, the truth behind him and everything that surrounds him and just do our homework.

"It's not often you get to work out a player of that caliber. We have no imminent plans of signing him at this point. But it was good to get him in and find out about him."

Hardy made plenty of news during his first -- and only -- season with the Cowboys, and almost always for the wrong reasons. He signed a one-year deal with the Cowboys in March 2015, and as recently as last October, executive vice president Stephen Jones said the team "absolutely" wanted to give Hardy a contract extension.

This came after Hardy, who served a four-game suspension for a domestic-violence incident to start the season, said he hoped to come out "guns blazing" in his return to the field, made some weird comments about Tom Brady's wife, explained how he planned to stop quarterback Eli Manning -- "Hit him in the mouth" -- and got into a sideline shouting match with teammate Dez Bryant after shoving a Cowboys assistant coach.

But the Cowboys chose to let Hardy walk, and he's received little interest in free agency. And while the Jags wanted to "find out about him," Caldwell concedes that domestic violence is a "serious issue."

"There's no place for it in in the world or the NFL, but we're going to do what's best for our team," Caldwell said, via the team's website. "We have players who want to win and a coaching staff that wants to win as much as our fan base. We're going to turn over every rock."

In an effort to rehabilitate his image, Hardy said in an April interview with ESPN's Adam Schefter that, "I've never put my hand on ANY women ... In my whole entire life."

The skeptics remained, including former Panthers teammate Steve Smith, who tweeted at the time:

In a league built on franchise quarterbacks and pass rushers that can get to them, it says a lot that Hardy, in the prime of his career, can't find a job.