Click here for linkAs a child in Charlotte, Vinnie Sunseri saw Kelly Johnson as the guy who could do it all.
Sunseri, Alabama’s sophomore safety, was only a fifth grader when he saw Johnson, a seventh grader, dunk a basketball.
“He was a freak athlete,” said Sunseri, whose older brother, Tino, played on Johnson’s middle school football team.
“I was like, 'Wow, I want to be like Kelly.’”
Years later, the tables had turned.
With Sunseri on scholarship and seeing action as a true freshman, Johnson, who had finally worked his way into some special teams duties as a walk-on junior, wanted to be just like Vinnie. He wanted to play.