Tony Buzbee, the attorney representing 22 women in civil cases accusing Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault and misconduct, said the request for nondisclosure agreements served as a "deal breaker" in settlement talks.
Buzbee discussed the cases during an interview with Fox 26 Houston, per John Barr and Sarah Barshop of ESPN.
"In what was submitted to us, there were nondisclosure agreements and many of the women pushed back on those," Buzbee said. He also said some of the women insisted they were "never going to sign that" even after he and his colleagues changed some of the language in the agreements.