Jon Dorenbos didn't play for the Eagles this season, but his former team will still honor him with a Super Bowl ring.

The long snapper spent more than 10 seasons with the Eagles before he was traded to the Saints in August. That move may have ended up saving his life, as doctors discovered during a physical that he had an aortic aneurysm.

Dorenbos, 37, had to cut his football career short and undergo open-heart surgery, but the Eagles still honored him in a huge way. Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie invited him to Minneapolis to watch them take on the Patriots in Super Bowl 52.

"Had I played, I'd die. If you can't play in it, this is the next best way to enjoy it," Dorenbos told the New Orleans Advocate. "Mr. Lurie called me and said he wants me to be a part of it, said I was here a long time and he said 'We're going to win this, and you're going to get a ring.'"

After the Eagles won 41-33, Dorenbos was asked if he had any regrets of being traded right before Philadelphia's historic season, which saw the team win its first Super Bowl title.

"My fate was what it was," Dorenbos said. "I'm just happy to be around guys I played with for so long."