Because Philadelphia center Cam Jurgens had a back injury, left guard Landon Dickerson started in his place in the Eagles’ showdown with the Washington Commanders on Jan. 26 for a spot in Super Bowl LIX.

Philadelphia defeated Washington 55-23, but Dickerson didn’t play in the second half. The former Alabama All-American sustained a knee injury that forced him from the game.

But two weeks after the NFC Championship Game, Dickerson returned to the field as the Eagles downed the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 to win Super Bowl LIX. Back at left guard, Dickerson and left tackle Jordan Mailata were the only Philadelphia players to take every snap with the Eagles offense.

The Philadelphia injury report did not provide any information beyond listing Dickerson’s ailment as “knee” leading into the Super Bowl. Now that’s the job is done, can Dickerson share what he played through?

“I’m going to be honest: I don’t completely know a hundred percent what’s wrong with it,” Dickerson said during an appearance on NFL Network. “So going probably next week sometime. It’s kind of like taking your car to the mechanic when it’s making a noise. I’m going to go to the docs, and they’ll pop the hood and see what’s going on and get everything straightened out.”

After leading running back Saquon Barkley to the NFL’s ninth 2,000-yard rushing season by an individual ball-carrier, providing the backbone for the highest-scoring postseason performance in NFL history and stonewalling the Kansas City Chiefs’ three-peat bid, the Philadelphia offensive line spent a week in the spotlight. The linemen accompanied Barkley and quarterback Jalen Hurts for an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” and Dickerson and Mailata spoke to the crowd gathered at the foot of the Rocky Steps at the end of Philadelphia’s championship parade on Friday.

“Offensive linemen usually don’t get a huge spotlight,” Dickerson said, “so we’re getting invited to do a lot of cool things, especially with Saquon and Jalen, and yeah, I mean, it really just means a lot, keeping us involved and letting us go out there and kind of be ourselves because, in my opinion, I think we might be one of the funniest and coolest position groups in football, but a lot of people don’t get to see that because we don’t get to touch the ball and score touchdowns all the time.”

On “The Tonight Show,” the offensive linemen shotgunned beers with Barkley and Fallon. Dickerson said he might have consumed his the fastest, even with Hurts spraying beer on him.

“There’s video replay available,” Dickerson said. “I may have to challenge the play in question. There was some interference by our quarterback. He didn’t drink his beer. Instead, it went on me, so I think that might’ve been interference. There could have been a flag on that. I don’t know. It needs to go to review, but, you know, I gave it my all there.”

The celebration that started at the end of Super Bowl LIX has amazed Dickerson, particularly the green-and-white confetti that fell and fell and fell at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans immediately after the game.

“There was a massive amount of confetti,” Dickerson said, “and I was wondering when it was going to stop. The celebration after it was like — you know, you get the confetti, and then it comes again and then again, and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is cool.’ And then 10 minutes later, you’re like, ‘This might be enough confetti.’ And then it just keeps on coming.

“I mean, honestly, just a cool moment overall. I definitely should have got a handful of it for memories. But, you know, that’ll be all right. There’s plenty of them to go around. I’m sure I can get some from somewhere else.”

Besides his knee, Dickerson’s offseason plans will include his continuing home-renovation work.

“The thing you’re seeing right now is a nice, finished upstairs,” Dickerson said during his NFL Network appearance. “But if I took you to the basement, you would see a completely gutted basement down to a concrete slab and pillars, so that’s going to be a big part there. I got a couple of directions I can go with this here. We have a mudroom that needs to — well, it’s really a closet to turn into a mudroom. And then we got a guest bathroom and another guest bedroom that we can knock out, so there are a couple of different ways we can go about it. And, really, it’s just going to be feeling out what project I want to tackle first.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.