They’re dubbed voluntary workouts, which means players can skip them if they choose. Yet when they do, the coaching staff wants to know why they’re missing.
Such was the case with Redskins safety LaRon Landry and corner Shawn Springs, both of whom missed the Organized Team Activities workout Monday. They weren’t alone: receiver Santana Moss, who had a weekend birthday celebration, missed because of “the flu.”
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“They had the opportunity to be here and they chose not to be,” Redskins coach Jim Zorn said of Landry and Springs. “I’ll call up and get a feel for why they decided not to come. It’s not something I’ll make a huge spectacle of and we’ll just see what happens. If I said I was really disappointed and they had a legit reason for not coming then I would misspeak, so I won’t do that.”
Springs has missed at least a portion of these workouts in the past while training in Arizona. Landry has been absent from most of the offseason workouts.
Meanwhile, receiver Antwaan Randle El likely won’t participate in the OTA workouts the next two weeks while he recovers from arthroscopic knee surgery last month. When he originally had the surgery on May 6, Randle El expressed optimism about participating in the OTAs.
“I feel pretty good,” he said. “[But when you are] cutting and moving, you want to make sure you don’t have any pain at all and I am still experiencing some of that. We don’t want to push it.
“I’m a little frustrated. Sitting and watching is never fun, but you need to be smart and certainly be available when it’s most important.”
