The children are D-Mac's future -- and he shouldn't be a franchise's

Doyel: Draft McFadden? Duh

Perhaps the best quote about Darren McFadden came from a longtime scout who, like many in football now, are studying the Arkansas star closely and drooling.

"It would scare me to draft him," the scout said, "and it would scare me not to."

Imagine handing over millions, and your franchise's future, to a player. Would you want his mind on his job or paternity suits? (US Presswire)

In other words, McFadden is so good, it would be foolish not to pick him with one of the top selections, yet in the age of The Irresponsible Athlete, in an era of Michael Vick, Travis Henry, John Daly and Pacman Jones, it could also be dangerous to put such a large financial boondoggle into the hands of a young man who might be headed to the baby-daddy Hall of Fame.

McFadden runs a 4.3; his sperm does a legit 3.2.

I'm not saying McFadden is virile, but Shawn Kemp is jealous.

People who know McFadden (including scouts who have interviewed him) say he is a good person. A woman with great character played a significant part in raising him and was a valuable mentor. Some of that obviously rubbed off on McFadden. He is smart, courteous and polite. He has a strong work ethic.

He might end up being the best player in the draft. And any team who picks him high would be making a mistake.

Go ahead and call me a bad guy, a petulant little snot trough. But I'm right.

My belief is that within the next few years the problem of paternity and single fathers will eclipse performance-enhancing drugs as the biggest hot button issue in professional sports.

McFadden will still be drafted high because NFL teams are ho's. They'll talk about how they care about character, but they would sell their souls for talent. Sell them cheap, too. In fact, ho's have higher standards.

So it would serve NFL teams right -- and there is no bigger ho in sports than Bill Parcells, owner of the top pick -- if one of them took McFadden high in the draft and the running back later copulated himself out of football.

I am not preaching from an unblemished perch. But McFadden's reported admission to NFL teams that he is battling a paternity suit and has two kids out of wedlock about to be born before his 21st birthday is highly troubling.