Reid, said "the team wanted to see where Jon was physically in his rehabilitation" from microfracture knee surgery.
In a text reply to the Daily News, Runyan said he didn't find out Andrews wasn't practicing until after the workout, which he said went "real well." Dogra said Runyan is scheduled to work out for the Bills today.
Afterward, the Eagles provided no information on Andrews' situation, other than the fact that he didn't practice, which was pretty clear already, and a parenthetical note that the problem was his back, which is what kept Andrews from playing in any preseason games, or at all since Game 2 last season.
Reid took the long route in from practice, going around the north end of the NovaCare Complex to an off-limits area, avoiding a group of reporters waiting to speak with him. An Eagles spokesman said Reid didn't know whether Andrews would be able to practice today and/or play Sunday, in the season opener at Carolina.
You would think, if this were a trivial problem, the team would want to make that clear, to quell panic. But nobody seemed real eager to say much of anything. Feel free to speculate that Reid is extremely exasperated with Andrews and his back; a visit last month to Dr. Robert Watkins, who performed surgery last year on Andrews, seemed to clear up whatever was bothering Andrews, but he and the team gave very different accounts of the seriousness of what Watkins did and found.
Winston Justice, who spent the afternoon back at the first-team right tackle spot where he spent the entire preseason, walked briskly toward the closed locker room as reporters tried to question him.
