The New England Patriots drew the assignment of tight end Jakob Johnson on Monday.
And, as part of the NFL’s International Player Pathway program, the native of Stuttgart, Germany will be assigned to the 2019 practice squad as an 11th man in the event he misses the roster cutdown on Aug. 31.
There’s some incubation time between now and then.
But let’s clean out the notebook on the University of Tennessee product, who spent this past season with the Stuttgart Scorpions of the German Football League and will join a Patriots depth chart featuring Matt LaCosse, Jacob Hollister, Stephen Anderson and Ryan Izzo.