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Grant, Packers at odds on new deal
Like Steven Jackson of the Rams, running back Ryan Grant of the Packers didn’t show up for training camp.
Unlike Jackson, Grant isn’t subject to daily fines in excess of $15,000, because Grant isn’t under contract.
Instead, Grant is an exclusive-rights free agent, and he has yet to sign his one-year tender. The term “exclusive-rights free agent” is misleading, because there’s no freedom involved. Grant’s only options are to sign with the Packers, or not play.
He can opt to show up as late as Week Ten, get credit for the season, and then be an exclusive-rights free agent again in 2009.
Though the Packers are trying to work out a long-term deal with Grant, his agent called the team’s most recent offer, which includes a whopping (eye roll) $1.75 million signing bonus on a six-year deal “insulting.”
“I can’t believe after 5 1/2 months, after the Packers said to us that this was a unique situation, that the Packers take care of their own, that we would get in a situation as unreasonable as this,” said agent Alan Herman. “I’ve never seen anything like that in my 24 years in the business.”
Still, Grant’s options are limited. And if he chooses not to report, someone else will get the chance to do what Grant did a year ago, when he arguably was in the right place at the right time after other guys got injured
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Ted Thompson and the Packers organization is a complete joke.
Like Steven Jackson of the Rams, running back Ryan Grant of the Packers didn’t show up for training camp.
Unlike Jackson, Grant isn’t subject to daily fines in excess of $15,000, because Grant isn’t under contract.
Instead, Grant is an exclusive-rights free agent, and he has yet to sign his one-year tender. The term “exclusive-rights free agent” is misleading, because there’s no freedom involved. Grant’s only options are to sign with the Packers, or not play.
He can opt to show up as late as Week Ten, get credit for the season, and then be an exclusive-rights free agent again in 2009.
Though the Packers are trying to work out a long-term deal with Grant, his agent called the team’s most recent offer, which includes a whopping (eye roll) $1.75 million signing bonus on a six-year deal “insulting.”
“I can’t believe after 5 1/2 months, after the Packers said to us that this was a unique situation, that the Packers take care of their own, that we would get in a situation as unreasonable as this,” said agent Alan Herman. “I’ve never seen anything like that in my 24 years in the business.”
Still, Grant’s options are limited. And if he chooses not to report, someone else will get the chance to do what Grant did a year ago, when he arguably was in the right place at the right time after other guys got injured
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Ted Thompson and the Packers organization is a complete joke.
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