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Patriots Draft Kicker With Tattoo of a Militia Group

Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch, via Associated Press

N.F.L. teams are sometimes criticized for drafting kickers, particularly if they take them as early as the fifth round.

That did not deter the New England Patriots from selecting Justin Rohrwasser, a kicker from Marshall, on Saturday with one of their two fifth-round picks.

The choice was controversial for another reason: Rohrwasser has a tattoo on his arm with the logo for the Three Percenters, a far-right militia group. The logo, which includes the Roman numeral III surrounded by 13 stars in a circle, has become popular among antigovernment extremists.