Turn on the film of Alabama's latest football commit and the kid just looks different. His burst, his explosiveness, his attacking mentality are all impossible to miss. And that's just the basketball film (watch here). At 6-foot-1 Gary Johnson isn't a basketball player, though. The Dodge City Community College athlete has found a great home as a football player — linebacker, specifically — and he's one of the best junior college football players in the country. He's now ranked as a four-star on 247Sports with a 93 rating.

Johnson committed to Alabama on Sunday.

On the football field, Johnson piled up 133 tackles last fall, 13.5 tackles for loss, four forced fumbles, four interceptions, three recovered fumbles and he was a leader of a Dodge City team that was stacked with major college talent. Johnson's linebackers coach Michael Starkey points to his intangibles before talking about any other aspect of his game.

"First and foremost he's a great young man," Starkey told 247Sports. "He's stepped up in a leadership role for us even as a freshman. Our 'mike' backer runs our defense, calls our plays, makes 99 percent of our checks and adjustments. The vocal leadership is there. He really does love the game. He was a crazy athletic basketball player but his first love and passion is a football."

Intangibles aside, Johnson may be one of the most athletic linebackers in the country. At 6-foot-1 and at around 218 pounds, he's putting up freaky numbers during team testing at Dodge City. On the coaches' clocks in the 40 yard dash, Johnson is showcasing the kind of athleticism that you rarely see inside the tackle box.

"When he got here last fall as true freshman, he ran a 4.44 in the 40," Starkey said. "We ran 40s the week before spring break and we always get three clocks on him. One clock had him at a 4.28, one had him at 4.32, one had him at 4.30 flat."

That kind of speed and athleticism helped contribute to Johnson's four-star rating. He's got a very similar profile to Ohio State's Darron Lee, a likely first-round draft pick this spring. Both have outstanding all-around athleticism and straightline speed. Both were really good offensive players in high school and both are right around that 6-foot-1 range with similar frames.

Lee spent a lot of his time at Ohio State outside of the box, making plays in space, using his athleticism to fly to the ball. Johnson will be asked to do that but Alabama sees him as a true inside linebacker according to his coach. He won't come to Tuscaloosa untested, though. In practice alone, he had a lot of battles with the top junior college running back in the 2016 class, Florida signee Mark Thompson.

"It doesn't matter what we're doing, whether we're in the weight room, we were playing dodge ball the other day doing some fun conditioning, he's just different. It's hard to put your finger on it. You talk about the height-weight ratio. He's just different than everybody else."