BOULDER — Jordan Seaton exemplifies what he aspires to be.

Colorado’s star left tackle has talked about his admiration of future Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Trent Williams, an 11-time Pro Bowler with the Commanders and 49ers who has been a three-time first-team All-Pro since turning 33.

But Seaton doesn’t just want to be like Williams. He wants to be better than him.

“I still look up to that man, but I’m trying to be better than him,” Seaton said in a “Reach The People Media” video. “It’s going to take a long (time) and a lot of dedication to get there. A lot of hard work. It ain’t going to come easy — I know it. But I’ve got the talent and the work ethic to do it.”

The Washington, D.C., native certainly doesn’t act like a normal 19-year-old. On the first day of spring practices, he woke up before 6 a.m., made himself a bowl of instant oatmeal, drank some orange juice, hopped in his six-figure Mercedes Maybach and headed to the CU practice facility.

After a debut season in college football saw him earn freshman All-American honors, play the most offensive snaps of anyone on the Buffs roster and generally prove himself worthy of the five-star recruiting rating he had as a high schooler, Seaton isn’t satisfied.

“I’m comfortable within myself (as a person) right now, but I’m not comfortable with where I’m at,” Seaton told The Denver Gazette. “I still want to keep striving and keep pushing to be the best I can be.”

While he was away from campus early in the summer, that meant working out three times a day, six days a week. He even spent time learning from Williams himself.

“Great linemen embrace that word ‘development,’ which he’s done,” CU offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur said. “He was our best lineman a year ago as a true freshman, but he understands that development is important. He developed his body in the offseason and then within our scheme and now working with four new players, he’s developed that camaraderie that you need as a group.”

Seaton wants to be a key voice in the locker room. He realized last season that whatever he expected from his teammates, he had to show them he already met those expectations.

“Day in and day out, guys on our team see how I carry myself and how I go in and really grind,” Seaton said. “When I do choose to say something, it’s out of respect and out of love.”

That’s begun to resonate in Boulder.

“The kid just wants it, he loves it,” assistant offensive line coach George Hegamin said. “He has the type of attitude that you want out of your star left tackle. He comes out there to work every day and get better and that’s exactly what we need.”

Now, with Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders off to the NFL, many are wondering who the next face of the Buffs program is going to be.

One look at No. 77 reveals the answer.

“If the state of Colorado and Colorado fans believe in me as much as they believed in them, then I’m willing to take it as far as it goes,” Seaton said. “As a lineman, it’s different. You don’t really get that (fame) a lot, unless you’re like a Trent Williams. I’m blessed to be in the position to be in the face of a team. Now, I’m just gonna make sure I do everything I can to not let my team down and people who believe in us down.”

Everything is going to plan so far.

“Everything we told him would happen has happened,” coach Deion Sanders said. “It’s been no false promises because we told him, ‘This will happen if you do A, B and C’ — and he’s done A, B, C and D. I’m truly proud of Jordan.”