Sentencing on that charge was delayed while Reid is evaluated to determine if he is eligible for a two-year program that combines incarceration and drug treatment. He currently remains in the Montgomery County Jail on an earlier charge.

Eagles Coach Andy Reid and his wife, Tammy, were in the courtroom during the plea. Garrett Reid, 25, did not give a statement on his own behalf. His parents made no comments.

The plea agreement is the latest step in a more than year-old saga that started in January, 2007 when Reid ran a red light in Plymouth Township and seriously injured a woman from Mount Carmel, Northumberland County. He told police that he had used heroin before the crash.

On the same day, his brother Britt was involved in an unrelated road rage incident where he brandished a gun at another motorist.

The dual arrests thrust the Reid brothers into the spotlight. The family troubles at one point caused their father to take a leave from his coaching job. There was sporadic speculation that his sons' troubles would prompt his resignation.

That never happened.Today's hearing stemmed from an incident disclosed on Nov. 1, when Garrett Reid pleaded guilty in connection with the traffic accident and was sentenced to two to 23 months.

At that November hearing it was learned that Reid had been addicted to drugs for years and had been in inpatient rehab facilities in Pennsylvania, California and Florida.

It was also disclosed that drugs were discovered in Reid's jail cell. He had allegedly smuggled the drugs, a variety of pills, into prison in his rectum.

That resulted in the charged disposed of today.

His younger brother served about six months in jail from the January 2007 road-rage confrontation in which he brandished a gun at another motorist. In Feb., he was paroled directly into the county's drug treatment court to finish his sentence.