Make that his former staff.
Mediator Phillips said: "This is a historic agreement, one that will make sure that former NFL players who need and deserve compensation will receive it, and that will promote safety for players at all levels of football".
Paterno centers around the two-week period before and after allegations were made that Jerry Sandusky, Paterno's former defensive coordinator at Penn State, had for years been abusing young boys, many of them on the football team's facilities.
The union claimed that up to a dozen members had made claims that former pupils were using the site's "memory boards" to defame them.
"It makes sense that former public servants are flocking here," he said in a written statement in response to questions for this article.
"It just makes sense that former patients are the ones who care the most, so they're the ones who respond most promptly and positively to appeals," said Rick Wade, a spokesman for the American Hospital Association.
