Deshaun Watson allegedly offered $100,000 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.” 

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…