ALBANY, N.Y. -- Surrounded by reporters Saturday morning, starting left tackle Will Beatty began by asking how everyone was.

But the real concern was over Beatty's well-being.

After Beatty missed practice Friday, head coach Tom Coughlin said the fourth-year tackle was slowing down and that his back was bothering him. On Saturday, Beatty told reporters he missed practice for a routine checkup and MRI but felt fine.

"We're in camp, so every day you're out there in practice. ... You get a checkup and you end up missing (practice)," Beatty said, "and you come back to all of this media love."

He said he wasn't sure when he would be practicing again.

"It wasn't like I went down in practice or anything like that," Beatty said. "It was, 'OK you had a few practices, let's see how things are going.' I feel good. Before was like, 'Yeah, I can't practice.' Now it's, 'Let's make sure you're staying healthy.'"

Beatty started 10 games last year before an eye injury cut his season short. His back injury kept him out of most of OTAs and minicamp during the offseason, but he didn't miss a day of training camp until Friday.

"I'm out there practicing. (Coughlin) watching us, he can probably see a lot more than we can feel. But watching the film, I'm still doing things I need to get done," Beatty said. "There are some things I need to work on, which is why we're here in camp.

But it's not like, 'You're not where we expected you to be. It's, 'You're doing good, your progress is coming along. You're not 100 percent, where you just go out there. You're still on the healing process, but you have to make sure you're still taking care of yourself.'"

Veteran Sean Locklear practiced with the first team at left tackle on Friday.