Reece James caught the eye of Sky Sports pundit Graeme Souness during Chelsea's 4-1 win over Sheffield United.
Goals from Tammy Abraham, Ben Chilwell, Thiago Silva, and Timo Werner ensured the Blues came from behind to seal a fourth successive win across all competitions and move to within a point of Premier League leaders Southampton.
Despite not getting on the scoresheet, Hakim Ziyech played a vital role in Chelsea's latest victory as he recorded two assists and had a hand in the equaliser.
However, Souness was extremely impressed with the display of a Blues full-back.
And it wasn't Chilwell who notched his second goal in Chelsea colours following his £50m move from Leicester City in the summer transfer window.
Instead, Souness heaped praise on James and made an exciting prediction about the Blues wonderkid.
"When you buy a player for a lot of money, all the focus is on him," Souness said on Sky Sports. "Ben Chilwell they spent £50m quid on a full-back and all the focus is on him.
"In Reece James, he's a top player.
"Given his age, he's going to get better and better.
"I've not talked about his strength, his pace, his delivery, and in terms of defending he looks like he's got that already.
"So you can only see him getting better and better.
"I asked Ash [Ashley Cole] off-air 'how strong is he?' and there's an incident if you see the third goal where it's a free-kick by Ziyech out by the right-hand side and Max Lowe comes in, fouls him - so it is a foul and there's a bit of a coming together and he just rag-dolls him, pushes him like a little boy."
James' form this season has earned him a senior England debut and he's been called up by Gareth Southgate for this month's internationals despite being suspended for two of the three fixtures.
Blues head coach Frank Lampard will hope the 20-year-old returns from international duty unscathed as games will be coming thick and fast in the next couple of months.
