Raiders Battle: Jakob Johnson vs. Sutton Smith

Raiders fullback Jakob Johnson, who will wear No. 45 for Las Vegas and seen here during an American football clinic in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Ludwigsburg in April, has the edge to win the starting gig.Once Jakob Johnson didn’t receive a restricted free agent tender from the New England Patriots, there was only one logical spot where the fullback would end up: With the Las Vegas Raiders. In turn, when the Silver & Black didn’t tender their own in-house restricted free agent fullback Alec Ingold, Johnson’s arrival in the desert was only a matter of time.

Thus, the 6-foot-3, 255-pound sledgehammer-type blocking fullback — who was in that role when new Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels was the play…