Grant Due Big Payoff
Grant runs toward a big hike in salary
By Pete Dougherty / greenbaypressgazette.com
Ryan Grant will work with the Green Bay Packers in the offseason without a contract, but to get him to training camp the Packers will have to sign him to a contract well above the NFL minimum for a second-year pro. Grant, who rose from the bottom of the Packers' depth chart to become one of the NFL's most productive runners in the second half of last season, has not signed a contract but nevertheless is taking part in the team's offseason workout program, which started Monday. His agent, Alan Herman, said Grant will take part in all the team's minicamps and workouts this spring, but that he will not sign the $370,000 minimum tender for an exclusive-rights player who has only one accrued season in the NFL. Grant is looking for a longer, far more lucrative deal after he rushed for 956 yards and averaged 5.1 yards a carry despite being the team's primary halfback for only the final nine games of the season. Herman said he has talked to Packers officials about a contract, but that they haven't begun negotiating.
"I'm optimistic we're going to move along here and get something done," Herman said Wednesday. "Nothing has begun in terms of the process. But listening to everything that's coming out of Green Bay in terms of the club taking care of their own, I'm optimistic, and that's why Ryan is there at this point. He's participating in the offseason program and we're looking forward to — let me put it this way, it's the golden opportunity for the Packers and Ryan Grant to get together on something that will keep him there for the rest of his career." [More]
By Pete Dougherty / greenbaypressgazette.com
Ryan Grant will work with the Green Bay Packers in the offseason without a contract, but to get him to training camp the Packers will have to sign him to a contract well above the NFL minimum for a second-year pro. Grant, who rose from the bottom of the Packers' depth chart to become one of the NFL's most productive runners in the second half of last season, has not signed a contract but nevertheless is taking part in the team's offseason workout program, which started Monday. His agent, Alan Herman, said Grant will take part in all the team's minicamps and workouts this spring, but that he will not sign the $370,000 minimum tender for an exclusive-rights player who has only one accrued season in the NFL. Grant is looking for a longer, far more lucrative deal after he rushed for 956 yards and averaged 5.1 yards a carry despite being the team's primary halfback for only the final nine games of the season. Herman said he has talked to Packers officials about a contract, but that they haven't begun negotiating.
"I'm optimistic we're going to move along here and get something done," Herman said Wednesday. "Nothing has begun in terms of the process. But listening to everything that's coming out of Green Bay in terms of the club taking care of their own, I'm optimistic, and that's why Ryan is there at this point. He's participating in the offseason program and we're looking forward to — let me put it this way, it's the golden opportunity for the Packers and Ryan Grant to get together on something that will keep him there for the rest of his career." [More]
Published by PackerPundit On Friday, March 21, 2008 at 4:53 AM.
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