According to JSonline, Ryan Grant and the Packers agreed to a 4 year deal. See the article for details.

This is great news, and sounds like a good deal for all involved. I will have move in the morning.

Update:

The reason I like this contract so much is because it is very incentive laden. These days running backs are, for the most part, very fragile players. They run at a high level for what seems to be 2-3 years, then break down. Add that to the fact that Grant has already had a serious injury that caused him to miss a year, and I think the Packers are right to be concerned about his longevity.

That said, if Grant runs like he did at the end of the season for the next 4 years, he deserves to be paid a lot, and that is exactly what this contract will do. If he performs well, he can get up to 30 million over the life of the contract. He most likely will not get all of that money, but it is better to have a contract with a big upside if they player performs than to lock them into a small contract and get disgruntled, or pay a big one and get injuries.

I don't like any holdout, but I like how this one was resolved.

I should point out that the injury that caused Grant to miss a year was non-football related. From this NYTimes article:

During the off-season in early 2006, someone bumped into Grant at the nightclub. When he wobbled and reached back to brace himself, his left hand went through Champagne glasses resting on the table. Grant cut an artery, a tendon and the ulnar nerve in his arm. Blood poured out of the wound, requiring emergency surgery. Grant plays down the ordeal now, but he acknowledged Wednesday that doctors were initially unsure if he would regain the use of his left hand.
Posted By: Chris Burkhardt

Friday, August 15, 2008 5:14:35 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Sounds like crap to me. When I was young a guy would have to pay to play foosball. Now these whippersnappers get more money to play the game than the entire GNP of this damn country when I was a kid. Screw this! I"m going to hand write a letter to someone at Lambeau, put a stamp on it and mail it to them (none of this intermail crap) That'll show them bastards. I hope they get a paper cut.
Ol' Chowder Pants McGee
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:39:39 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Look Chowder Pants, I don't know what it was like when you were growing up, but these days sports run the world.

Get used to it, bag of bones.
C. Burkhardt
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:49:52 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
The article on Grant was very interesting, I hadn’t known any of those things.

As far as the holdout is concerned – I didn’t mind that. He didn’t have a contract and his only bargaining chip is his service. It’s the guys like Javon Walker that drive me nuts. He was all happy with the great five year deal he signed. Then he had one good year in his whole career and two years into the contract it was insulting and he held out.

Or how about James Lofton (I’m almost positive it was Lofton) who, with less than a week before the season opener against the Vikings, decided that he wasn’t going play without a new contract. Talk about a classless P. O. S. But if a player plays out his contract and doesn’t have a new one I don’t blame him for not playing. I wouldn’t even call it a holdout.
DynacomDave
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