Fantasy football truth be told, none of the recent news surrounding NFL quarterbacks should affect your draft very much. Let's go through it:

- Chad Pennington has been named the starter for the Jets. He beat our Patrick Ramsey and rookie sensation, Kellen Clemens. Nevertheless, Pennington can scarecely throw the ball 10 yards and Kevan Barlow won't take a lot of pressure of by running well.

- Kerry Collins has signed with the Titans. It's a good decision in Tennessee - but the advice we'd give fantasy football players is to think about current starter, Billy Volek for your squad. He's racked up a few 400-yard games in his brief career.

- The Raiders signed Jeff George. This is simply hilarious. Don't even think about him as a fantasy football quarterback.

A trade last night shook up the fantasy football landscape a bit. Ashley Lelie - traded to Atlanta from Denver, who received Washington's 2007 third round draft pick - gives Michael Vick a fairly established deep threat.

Vick is still no top fantasy football quarterback, but he should enjoy the presence of Lelie beating defenses down the field. Even more important for the Falcons - or, to be precise, fantasy owners analying the team - is how many more carries Warrick Dunn will receive now.

He's a surefire second round draft pick, players.

But what about Clinton Portis? The Files felt confident enough to list him as our fourth best running back, but now he's hurt. And Duckett is a goal line specialist.

This affects anyone with the number-four position. We'd recommend trading down. If you can't, Rudi Johnson, Edgerrin James or Tiki Barber are all looking more attractive than Portis, who will lose a few touchdowns this season thanks to the addition of Duckett.

See, we told you this trade should have no impact on your fantasy football draft.

This should have no bearing on your fantasy football draft strategy at all.

Good luck! 

Fantasy football owners that hold the number-four pick in this year's draft are all muttering the same thing as Clinton Portis right about now:

Do we really need preseason games?!?

Portis separated his shoulder against the Bengals last night, trying to tackle a defender after an interception. The All-Pro - whose status for the season opener is now unclear - what not pleased about being in the game inthe first place.

"After that 8-yard run, I was like, 'Get me out of that game,'" Portis said. "That's what I was thinking. It's football. It can happen to anyone. It happened to me."

And now the injury bug has happened to a number of fantasy football players. After Larry Johnson, LaDainian Tomlinson and Shaun Alexander, Portis was pretty much the consensus next pick.

Now? It's up in the air. Tiki Barber is the next back on most people's list, but age must catch up with the Giants star at some point … right? Bottom line: if your draft is not for a couple weeks, refresh the Web every few minutes and check out Portis' status.

In case Houston fans weren't already lamenting their team passing on Reggie Bush, word comes out of Texans' camp that starting RB, Domanick Davis, is still injured.

After two days of participating in training camp practice, Davis went for an MRI on his sore knee and sat out of practice for the second straight day on Monday. Looks like the runner's surgically repaired knee isn't healing as quickly as he'd hoped.

Head coach Gary Kubiak expects to know the future of Davis soon.

"I think we're going to know a lot more about that knee and how he's doing, probably, over the next week," Kubiak said. "(Head athletic trainer) Kevin (Bastin) feels good about it. Domanick feels good about it."

Houston doesn't have awful back-ups. Antowain Smith won a Super Bowl with the Patriots and even second-year back, Vernand Morency, has been solid.

For fantasy football owners, however? Forget it. Davis is certainly out of the first round of any draft now.

We love the now svelte scribe for Sports Illustrated - but to say his recent predictions and advice have been off base is an understatement.

Two years ago, King foresaw an MVP trophy for Denver quarterback, Jake Plummer. That didn't exactly pan out.

Last year, the writer jumped aboard the Julius Jones bandwagon, causing at least one expert from The Files to select the Dallas RB early in his fantasy football draft. The 1,500 yards King predicted didn't pan out - Jones never once rushed for more than 100 in a 2005 game.

Now? The latest issue of SI provides readers with this nugget from King: fantasy football running backs are overrated. Any first round selection outside the top few MUST be Peyton Manning.

Nevermind that Manning's numbers last year were scarcely better than those of Tom Brady; or that rushing TDs are worth more than passing ones in fantasy football.

But go ahead and believe King if you'd like to. Maybe you also wanna pick up Plummer in the second round.

The WHO is not up for debate: Larry Johnson should be the first overall pick in any fantasy football draft this year.

But what about the WHERE? Given the choice - as some leagues do, by rewarding the previous season's top finishers with their preferred positions - of which draft pick to be locked into, what spot is most likely to lead to a championship?

Let's rule out any of the middle selections right now. Assuming you agree that running backs are the most important position, how do you deciper between this second-rate tier? Do you go with Rudi Johnson, Clinton Portis, Edgerrin James?

You'd be off near the bottom. These players will have been sifted through already by fellow league members, a solid starting back will remain and you'll be set up well in round two.

But what about the top? Is snaring a top producer worth the wait until the second round finally swings back your way? Every early selection matters, as there are only a handful of exceptional wide receivers and backs out there. That's why we'd advoid the top spot. Johnson is phenomenal, but there may not be any serviceable backfield mates remaining by the time you pick again - and the Marvin Harrisons and Chad Johnsons of the world will also be gone.

Therefore, without further build-up, here is the ideal draft position, according to The Files: NUMBER-THREE. Here's why:

You'll end up with a top tier running back, most likely LaDainian Tomlinson. He's very good - and the value of all other backs falls significantly after the initial trio is off the board (sorry, Tiki, we still can't put you in this class).

An important contributor will still be available in the following round, while you'll barely be able to ogle over LT's stats and highlights before it's your selection again in round three. Sounds like the make-up of a successful squad to us!

Let's start with the obvious: now that Jimmy Smith has retired, you probably shouldn't draft him on your fantasy football team. But how will this decision affect other aspects of your draft? What about other players on the Jaguars?

Despite his age, Smith led Jacksonville in receiving a season ago. If the team knew he'd turn in his cleats, perhaps they would've pursued a free agent such a Nate Burelson a bit harder. Nevertheless, the Jags are well stocked at WR.

Rookie Matt Jones came on strong to close last year and Ernest Wilford has been a surprise. It still won't be a potent offense - and Fred Taylor will be injured at least four times - but expect Greg Jones to find the endzone on more than one occasion.

We learned a couple of things from this weekend's NFL Draft:

1. The Texans are run by complete morons
2. Mel Kiper, Jr. has far too much time on his hands

The Files, of course, was paying close attention in order to provide our readers with the only information that matters: how will the players selected fare in fantasy leagues this season?

Our latest feature has the answers.