The University of Oregon has dropped a lawsuit seeking $10,000 from Dakoda Fields, a former Ducks football player who left the team before season’s end and transferred to the University of Oklahoma.

A lawsuit filed May 15 in Lane County Circuit Court alleged a breach of contract by Fields.

In a May 27 court filing, UO said Fields, the defendant, “has paid, and the University has received, the remaining money owed under the Parties’ agreement. Defendant has also paid the University’s estimated attorney fees and costs for pursuing this action.”

Under a sweeping agreement involving former NCAA athletes known as the “House settlement,” approved in court last year, universities now directly pay players. 

Fields, a cornerback, joined the Ducks out of high school in 2024, then left the team in November 2025, according to published reports.

The lawsuit stated that UO and Fields reached an agreement in February for him to make a discounted $29,882.30 payment by April 20 “in exchange for a release of liability from the university related to an underlying dispute.” The nature of the underlying dispute was not described in court documents.

Fields allegedly missed the payment deadline, with the lawsuit stating that under the February agreement, the amount owed increased to $39,882.30 after April 20.

The university declined to comment on the lawsuit after its filing. 

Michael H. LeRoy, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Labor and Employment Relations, told Lookout in an email last month that one possibility for the lawsuit was “to recover a pro-rated share of the contract that was paid forward to the player, given that he left the team during the season.”

The Daily Emerald, the UO student newspaper, was the first to report on UO dropping the lawsuit.