Safety Malcolm Jenkins is one of eight Eagles players who had won a Super Bowl before this season. Super Bowl LII is different for most of the guys that have been to the mountaintop before.

The 2017 Eagles finally got the first Super Bowl win for the franchise. Jenkins had been through something similar. He was a part of a Saints team that gave New Orleans their first Super Bowl win after the 2009 season.

Delivering a championship to the Saints was special for Jenkins, but winning it all with the Eagles is just different for the veteran.

“It’s a big difference for me personally. Even the experience of it all,” Jenkins said during locker cleanout day on Wednesday. “Being a leader on this team, a key contributor and being a lot older than I was my rookie year, it means a totally different amount to me now.”

That is not to say it wasn’t special for Jenkins in New Orleans. It’s just that back then he was a rookie and didn’t have the same weight on the team that Jenkins carries now as a veteran team leader.

“As a rookie in New Orleans, it was special. It was fun, that team was great. But I wasn’t like a starter, a leader on the team. I felt like I was a part of that but this, this feels like my Super Bowl, my team, My city and I love it. It means a little bit more, no doubt,” Jenkins said.

As for the parade on Thursday, Jenkins is excited about what’s to come. Getting the chance to see the fans line Broad Street is an experience that Jenkins is surely looking forward to.

Jenkins thought back to those days when he had as a Saint at a parade in New Orleans. He couldn’t resist cracking a smile as he looked back on the days when he was jumping on and off of the floats in the parade.

While that experience is one that he will easily look back on fondly, the parade through Philadelphia will be one of a kind. There aren’t more places that are much more starved for a championship than Philadelphia. That’s why when the parade happens, it will be an unforgettable experience.