Well, no wonder Darren McFadden runs so fast! According to a report published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution Sunday night, the former Arkansas running back, who wowed scouts with his 4.27 and 4.33 40-yard dash times at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, "is not only battling a paternity suit, but...told a team during an interview Saturday night that he has two children on the way."

This, more than anything else, explains why defense lawyers everywhere are reluctant to allow their "presumed innocent" clients to open their mouths, especially under oath. The point of fighting a paternity suit, one would assume, would be to deny that you are the father of the little bundle of joy, wouldn't it?

To then admit to a team during an interview that you, in fact, will be a father twice soon can't make the job of McFadden's lawyer any easier, unless of course, McFadden was saying that he has two other children on the way and thus couldn't possibly have had time to father the third, disputed, baby.

In any event, the running back, who seems to be giving a whole new meaning to the description "explosive," will need to hit a big First Round payday if he is going to be forced to support little, tiny Darrens at the rate two per offseason. Hopefully once he's had millions of dollars thrust at him he can even afford a condom or two.

The obvious question though, and I'm sure you were thinking it too, is this: Is there any possibility whatsoever McFadden could slip all the way down to twelfth in the draft and be taken by the Broncos?

I know, I know, it deifes all logic and won't happen. But wouldn't it be worth it just to see "Bring Your Child To Work Day" in Denver? Between McFadden and Travis Henry, another running back who you would have to call "prolific," although not necessarily for yardage reasons, they would need to construct an addition on Invesco Field just to have room for the progeny of those two guys.

One thing seems clear, anyway. Darren McFadden either needs to learn to run just as fast away from the women throwing themselves at him as he did at the combine last weekend, or else someone has to explain the virtues of condom use to him, and fast.

If he thinks women were throwing themselves at him when he was a bigshot SEC football player, just wait until he's a bigshot NFL player; and it takes lots of money to raise a child. Just ask Travis Henry.