Regards Deshaun Watson, someone claims ----

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https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/deshaun-watson-allegedly-
offered-100000-to-settle-each-lawsuit-but-his-money-was-rejected-
for-this-reason/

For the past 12 months, Deshaun Watson has been facing 22 civil
lawsuits, but that number jumped up to 23 this week when a new
lawsuit was filed in Texas.

When the newest lawsuit was filed on Tuesday, it included an
interesting piece of information: Apparently, Watson offered
$100,000 to each plaintiff in an effort to settle each of the 22
lawsuits that he was facing. It had already been known that
settlement talks took place around the trade deadline last
season, but it wasn't known how much Watson was offering to
settle each case.

As first noted by Pro Football Talk, there's a notation in the
most recent lawsuit that mentions the settlement offer. The
latest lawsuit is 11 pages long and tucked away on the second
page was a notation about the settlement offer.

Here's what the notation says, "We now know that Deshaun Watson
offered each Plaintiff $100,000 to settle their cases, but not
all would accept that amount, due to the aggressive
nondisclosure agreement [NDA] that Watson's team proposed."

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Deshaun Watson apparently offered $100,000 to settle each of the
civil lawsuits that he's facing.
The notation was added by Tony Buzbee, who represents each of
the 23 plaintiffs. Buzbee is the lawyer for all 22 women who
were involved in the settlement talks and he also represents the
woman who filed her lawsuit this week.

So why would Watson make a settlement offer if he insists that
he's innocent? Here's a look at how the offer ties into
everything that's happened over the past nine months:

It appears this offer was made around October. Back in January,
one of the woman in the case offered a copy of the NDA to the
Daily Beast. The woman never signed the NDA, which noted that
Watson would be willing to pay her $100,000 to sign it at some
point in October. At the time, it wasn't clear if the offer was
just for her or if it was made to the other women. Based on the
court documents released this week, it appears the offer was
made to all 22 women.

Why did Watson's team want an NDA? Watson's attorney recently
explained that the only reason he was looking to have the women
sign an NDA is because the Miami Dolphins wanted it. The
Dolphins were trying to make a trade for Watson back in October
and according to multiple reports at the time, they were only
going to go through with the deal if Watson reached a settlement
with all 22 women who had filed a lawsuit. In the end, only 18
of the 22 women agreed, which blew up the trade and took the
settlement off the table since it was an all-or-nothing deal.

Tony Buzbee says the NDA ruined the settlement talks. After the
trade deadline, Buzbee said that the aggressive NDAs is what
killed the deal, "In what was submitted to us, there were
nondisclosure agreements and many of the women pushed back on
those," Buzbee said in November. Buzbee specifically referred to
the NDAs as a "deal-breaker" during that same interview.

Basically, it seems that Watson's camp offered the $100,000
settlement to each plaintiff in order to facilitate a trade to
the Dolphins, which tells you how close a trade was to
happening. If all 22 women had agreed to Watson's settlement
offer, it's possible that Watson would be playing for the
Dolphins right now, but four of the women pushed back and
refused to sign.

As things currently stand, Watson is still facing 23 civil
lawsuits. In the meantime, the NFL is finishing up its
investigation into the Browns quarterback, an investigation that
should be completed soon, according to commissioner Roger
Goodell.

"I think we're nearing the end of the investigative period,"
Goodell said at the Spring League Meeting on May 24. "Then it
will be handled by our disciplinary officer."

Even though the investigation is expected to be wrapped up in
the near future, Goodell hasn't given a timeline for a possible
announcement of the findings where the league would reveal
whether Watson is facing a punishment or not.