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Givens Gives Eagles A Deep Threat At WR

Chris Givens isn’t here to be The Answer for the Eagles’ receiving corps. Instead he’s here, after agreeing to terms on a one-year contract Wednesday, to be a part of a room that needs to step up, collectively, from last season and give quarterback Sam Bradford reliability and productivity.

Givens, who played for St. Louis (three seasons plus three games of a fourth season) and Baltimore (12 games in 2015), is an Eagle because the team thinks he can be an explosive, make-the-defense-respect-his-deep-speed kind of player. Givens hasn’t been a particularly numbers-consuming wide receiver since St.