Getting votes as top receiver

No matter who wins the election, the next president will be a Yale graduate. But everyone in the Yale athletic department is buzzing over the NFL’s leading receiver. When was the last time a Yale player led the NFL in receptions? “I don’t know,” said Eric Johnson. But there atop the league leaders is Johnson, the 49ers’ tight end. Through five games he has 41 catches, ahead of such names as Issac Bruce, Joe Horn and Terrell Owens. A three-sport Massachusetts high school star, Johnson wasn’t thinking about anything but a good education. “I didn’t think about the NFL at all,” he said. But Bill Walsh urged the 49ers to draft Johnson. “I’m very proud to be his last pick,” Johnson said.