Throughout New England, David Givens will always be remembered for flexing his enormous arms in the end zone during Super Bowl XXXIX. His post-Patriots career, however, didn't have many memorable moments, due largely to injuries.
Now, Givens is suing the Tennessee Titans for those injuries that may have cost him his career.
According to ESPN, Givens is suing the Titans for $25 million for allegedly withholding medical information from him and letting him play.
Givens' lawyer, Dan Warlick, claims that a doctor wrote a note of concern regarding Givens' knee to Titans coach Jeff Fisher and then-GM Floyd Reese, who is now the senior football advisor for the Patriots. The information in that note was never passed on to Givens, the suit alleges.
"It's emotional and physical, and the idea that his career was cut short," Givens' former agent, Brad Blank, told the Tennessean. "The issue is what could have been done better and was there some kind of malpractice or negligence. His knee looks awful. … He is also not the happy-go-lucky, affable guy I used to know."
Givens, 29, signed a five-year, $24 million contract with the Titans in 2006. He was drafted out of Notre Dame in 2002 by the Patriots in the seventh round. From 2004-05, he caught 115 passes for 1,612 yards and five touchdowns. In his only season in Tennessee, he caught just eight passes for 104 yards and no touchdowns before injuring his knee in Week 10.
