CU Buffs star recruit Jordan Seaton has “big future”

Jordan Seaton’s got Trent Williams in his phone and Travis Kelce in his soul.

“He has great size,” Joey King of Carrollton (Ga.) High, Trevor Lawrence’s old high school coach and one of Seaton’s tutors at the Under Armour Next All-american Game last month, emailed me Tuesday. “(Along with) very quick feet and good athleticism.”

Actually, “good” might be selling the kid short. Late in the game, King and his fellow coaches had Seaton, the No. 1 prep offensive tackle recruit in the country and the jewel of Deion Sanders’ 2024 football recruiting class at CU, run a pass route on a 2-point conversion attempt.

When you watch the clip again, it plays out like a younger Penei Sewell, a dancer trapped in a bulldozer’s body. Nimble toes. Soft hands. The Buffs’ freshman-to-be flashes right. He snares the dump pass easily, tucking the ball into his right hand, then forearm-shivering a defender to the turf with his left. No. 77 in white basically button-mashes turbo all the way to the end zone. While Seaton gets busy celebrating with his teammates, the dude he clocked is still lying there, on his back, at the 2-yard line, as if questioning his life choices.

Did we mention that young Jordan checks in at 6-foot-5, 290-ish pounds? A flag wiped out the play, but big guys — the mortal ones, anyway — don’t move like that. Apex predators, Volvo trucks, sure. Not high school linemen.

“He’d actually moved to right tackle,” Torrian Wilson, who coached the linemen on Seaton’s Team Ice at the aforementioned All-american game, recalled over the phone. “(The other tackle) was out for a specific play. Jordan just ran in there and said, ‘Coach, I can play right tackle.’ And he ended up getting the ball.”

The second National Signing Day arrives Wednesday, which got us thinking: Is Seaton, the IMG Academy blocker and fivestar get, ready for the future of quarterback Shedeur Sanders, and a program with Big 12 title aspirations, to be foisted upon his mighty teenage shoulders?

“I think he is (ready),” said Wilson, a former blocker at UCF and with the Detroit Lions and New England Patriots, who now trains and tutors offensive linemen in South Florida. “(Just) for the simple fact of being able to be ahead of his time. And just realizing and seeing how lockedin he is to the game. He’s ahead of his time when it comes to understanding ‘What are we trying to accomplish with the offense?’ I think he can come in and contribute right away.

“It’s hard for freshmen tackles to do that. He’s not an average freshman.”