In February we learned of an odd lawsuit against former Washington linebacker H.B. Blades, who was accidentally overpaid by the team. That lawsuit has now been settled.
Blades has agreed to pay the team $20,658.88 to settle the matter, via attorney Daniel Wallach. The team had initially said Blades owed $40,000, but Blades said he should owe less because taxes were deducted from the $40,000 he was overpaid.
The team says it paid Blades $40,000 in 2013, long after he was done playing for the team, as a result of a clerical error.
Washington drafted Blades in the sixth round of the 2007 NFL draft and he spent four seasons with the team, playing in all 16 games every year from 2007 to 2010. He was cut at the end of the 2011 preseason.
