Patriots rookie Jakob Johnson took a path almost entirely untraveled just to end up on the team’s training camp roster. Now, in Week 4 of the 2019 NFL season, Johnson will be on the 53-man roster against the Buffalo Bills. Here are four things to know about the rookie fullback.
His path to the NFL was an unconventional one.
Johnson was born in Stuttgart, Germany, which is where he began his football career as a member of the Stuttgart Scorpions’ U19 team. Johnson proved to be both too skilled and too physically overpowering for U19 German football, so he moved to Jacksonville, Florida’s Jean Ribault High School for his senior year of high school to chase an opportunity playing football in the United States.