--Running back Ryan Grant finished the season with 1,203 rushing yards. That left him just short of reaching a 1,250-yard benchmark that would have earned him an additional $1 million next year.
The difference turned out to be an 80-yard touchdown run that was overturned by replay in the third quarter of the Packers' 31-21, season-ending win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday. Grant was credited with a 21-yard run.
He had continued to run with the football to the end zone after he was tackled by cornerback Leigh Bodden but didn't hear an official's whistle blowing the play dead.
The replay review after the Lions challenged the call showed that Grant was down by contact when his hips hit the ground.
"That's how it goes," Grant said. "I told E.B. (running backs coach Edgar Bennett, who played for the Packers), maybe if we were playing back in his day, in the early '90s with no replay, they might have gave it to me.
"I didn't think I was down, but evidently I was. If I don't hear the whistle, I'm going to keep running, and the referee's running with me, he's saying, 'You weren't down, keep running.'"
Grant matched under-study DeShawn Wynn with 106 rushing yards in Sunday's game. Wynn started the scoring with a 73-yard touchdown run. The Packers totaled a season-high 211 yards on the ground.
--By virtue of finishing 6-10, the Packers are slotted to pick ninth in the first round of the NFL Draft in April. If they stay put, it will be only the third top-10 selection for Green Bay since 1993 - Florida State defensive end Jamal Reynolds was taken 10th in 2001, and Ohio State linebacker A.J. Hawk went fifth in 2006.
--Thanks to the New York Jets stumbling down the stretch and not qualifying for the AFC playoffs, the Packers won't get a higher draft pick from the Jets as compensation for the trade of quarterback Brett Favre last summer.
Green Bay will receive a third-round selection in the 2009 draft. The pick would have been a second-rounder had the Jets made the playoffs.
