Our legal system is really not about justice. It's an industry.
The players that were involved in the suit that spoke about it said the goal really wasn’t a wad of cash, it was getting the NFL to put brain damage from concussions under the game related injury umbrella which gets them access to a lot of medical treatment. The league had been avoiding that because they’d been insisting for years there were no long term side effects to concussions. The actual dollar value is meaningless, the important part is now brain damage is considered just like knee damage, covered as part of the retired player package.