Pietersen replaced Rob Key, but England also dropped Eoin Morgan and Ryan Sidebottom from the team humbled by the Netherlands on Friday.
It was England's first Test since 2003 World Cup-winning captain Johnson replaced Brian Ashton as England boss, although Rob Andrew is in charge of the tour party because Johnson remained in England as his wife is expecting their second child.
England tour manager Rob Andrew has insisted that the players concerned "have the complete support of all the players and the management".
England caretaker coach Rob Andrew said they were co-operating with police.
Celek was the third tight end to reach 100 yards in a game against the Jets this season, following New England's Rob Gronkowski and Dallas' Jason Witten.
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Hi Rob, several teams - namely England, Wales and Ireland - have had their fair share of bad luck when it comes to players being unavailable because of injuries for the start of the Six Nations.
But eventually, Bopara skied Ten Doeschate to wide long-on, and England, who brought in Rob Key for the injured Kevin Pietersen, barely did anything right for the rest of the match.
Rob Purdham converted both tries to give England a healthy advantage but the Kiwis hit back on 14 minutes when Paul Sykes missed Jerome Ropati and Vatuvei crashed over in the corner for the first of his tries.
Backs Rob Vickerman and Tom Biggs are away on England Sevens duty in Hong Kong.
Fiji struck first through Emosi Vucago but England hit back with a converted Rob Vickerman try to take the lead.
Pollard, depending upon your tastes, is either the least-perfect or most-perfect player in the NFL to weigh in on this issue: He has been a one-man wrecking crew during his NFL career, injuring New England Patriots players in particular (Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski and Stevan Ridley are notable victims).
He was chosen ahead of Academy team-mates Rob Key and Owais Shah, both of whom have previously represented England.
Trailing 29-28, England sent on Shane Geraghty at fly-half and Rob Webber at hooker, while fellow replacements James Haskell, Ben Youngs and Dan Ward-Smith also appeared on the hour.
Full-back is a little easier with Wales' Lee Byrne and Ireland's Rob Kearney as front runners, but Delon Armitage played so well for England in the Six Nations I don't think he can be ignored.
England were the better side in the opening half in Newcastle with Rob Burrow scoring two of their four tries.
Players from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will all be eligible to play for the Team GB sevens team and Rob Andrew, the Rugby Football Union's elite rugby director, said England were looking forward to joining forces with the Celtic nations.
With Wales' Lee Byrne and Ireland's Rob Kearney the only full-backs in the squad, another surprise omission was England's Delon Armitage.
England trailed 17-0 but cut the gap to five points with tries from Ollie Phillips and Rob Vickerman.
During his time at Saints he has had strong mentors in academy manager Rob Hunter and Northampton forwards coach Dorian West, while he has also had experience of international rugby playing for England's Under-18 and Under-20 sides.
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