PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Eagles are placing left guard Landon Dickerson on injured reserve, NFL sources told The Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday.

Dickerson will miss at least the next four games with a knee injury after his struggles in the season-opening 24-22 win over the Washington Commanders. The 27-year-old offensive lineman was on 94.1 WIP when the news broke and while he said he had yet to be told he was going to injured reserve, he said it was “the plan.”

“Honestly, I played like s— yesterday,” Dickerson said on the radio. “I was a complete liability. It was my fault. I should not be out there until I feel healthy. A few weeks ago, someone rolled up on me in practice. We got some imaging on it today. Really the best plan going forward is to put me on IR so I can have a good stretch at the back end of the season.

“I don’t think anybody wants to see that again. That was ugly. That was [bull]. This is not related to last season.”

Dickerson underwent knee surgery prior to last season after suffering an injury during training camp. He rushed his return in time for the opener, but said recently that he wouldn’t have come back so soon in retrospect.

He struggled all season and there was concern inside the Eagles that he may retire. Dickerson later said he never contemplated retirement.

“I wouldn’t have spent seven figures in the offseason,” Dickerson said on WIP.

Second-year offensive lineman Drew Kendall is expected to replace Dickerson, unless the Eagles decide on another configuration that could shift center Cam Jurgens to guard. Willie Lampkin is also in play for either job, although Kendall is the likely first interior lineman up.

Kendall played center exclusively in college, while Jurgens’ first season as a starter in the NFL was at right guard. Jurgens also struggled against Washington on Sunday.

Like Dickerson, he played through injury during the Super Bowl LIX run in 2025 and returned the following season following back surgery. He never looked 100%.

Dickerson’s career, dating back to college, has been injury-plagued. He had multiple ACL tears, ankle surgeries, and other ailments during his time at Florida State and Alabama. The Eagles drafted him in the second round despite the medical red flags.

He quickly became one of the NFL’s best interior linemen, though, and earned three straight Pro Bowl nods from 2022-24. But the injuries mounted, and while Dickerson missed only a handful of games in his first five seasons, it increasingly affected his performance.

The Eagles’ changes to their offensive scheme this offseason were expected to affect Dickerson the most out of the starting five O-linemen. The wide-zone blocking requires more athletic and agile blockers.

Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was asked earlier on Monday if Dickerson was healthy enough to compete at a high level.

“I think what you see with Landon is his extreme power,” Sirianni said. “He’s a big man who’s able to move guys off the spot. If you go back and you look at, OK, so he gives up some pressures, all right. But he also caved in the side on Saquon [Barkley]’s long run on that third down.”

Dickerson underwent meniscus surgery during training camp last year but returned to practice approximately two weeks later.

“Probably shouldn’t have gone out there and played, but you live and you learn,” Dickerson said after the third practice of training camp this summer. “You do stupid stuff when you’re young. I learned that mistake.”

A player placed on injured reserve with a designation to return is required to be out for a minimum of four games. Dickerson will miss road contests against the Tennessee Titans and Chicago Bears over the next two weeks, in addition to a home game against the Los Angeles Rams and the team’s Oct. 11 trip to London to face the Jacksonville Jaguars.

He would be eligible to return on Oct. 18 against the Carolina Panthers.

General manager Howie Roseman admitted last month that the Eagles’ interior O-line depth was a chief concern heading into camp. Kendall and Lampkin had very little NFL experience, but Roseman said their performances in camp and the preseason assuaged his worries.

Kendall, a fifth-round pick out of Boston College in 2025, played mostly special teams in seven games last season — including a start in the season finale against the Commanders when the Eagles rested most of their starters — and also appeared on special teams in Sunday’s win against Washington.

The Eagles signed the 5-foot-11, 290-pound Lampkin after the Rams released him with an injury designation last August. He was inactive all of last season, but showed promise immediately this summer despite his below-average size.

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