Rams running back Steven Jackson has finally ended his holdout, and now he says he’s about to get paid.

“In principle, it’s agreed to,” Jackson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He added that a few more details on a new contract will be worked out today and then, “We’ll be pretty much done … we got it done.”

Although contract negotiations that involve holdouts are often acrimonious, Jackson said he’s satisfied with the way negotiations have progressed.

“Things really got hot and heavy [Wednesday], and that’s when I booked the flight,” Jackson said. “When you’re talking about this kind of money, there’s going to be some kind of gripes and concerns. In negotiations, no one gets 100 percent what they want, so it was just the two of us coming to an agreement on some things.”

The 2008 season represents the final year of the five-year contract Jackson signed as the Rams’ first-round draft pick in 2004. He has said that he is mindful of the risk of injury for an NFL running back and wants to get a long-term deal in place that will ensure him financial security.

The Post-Dispatch reports that the Rams offered Jackson a seven-year, $50 million contract with $17 million in guarantees in late July, and that the final numbers of the contract Jackson is likely to sign this week won’t be significantly different from that.