John Jastremski, 35, has worked for the New England Patriots for more than 20 years and serves as an equipment assistant who prepares the team’s footballs for games.
He’s a central figure in the Wells Report, which finds it “more probable than not” that he conspired with Jim McNally, the officials locker room attendant for the team, to deliberately deflate the Patriots’ game balls before the January AFC Championship game.
He called and texted with Tom Brady numerous times in the three days after the Jan. 18 game and appeared to be close to the Patriots quarterback, who once asked him in a text message, “You good Jonny boy?