Paul Seedsman is finally getting a proper opportunity to showcase his enormous talents to the football world.

Having battled injury and inconsistency across the first seven seasons of his career, in which he managed just 69 of a possible 166 games across two clubs, the 26-year-old has been ultra-consistent in his start to the 2018 Toyota AFL Premiership Season.

This year marks just the second time in Seedsman’s career he has played the opening three rounds of a season, and the steadiness has been evident with the wingman averaging a career-best 26 disposals at almost 80 per cent efficiency, five marks and six inside 50s per game.

Seedsman finished with another 26 touches and booted two important goals in his side’s 49-point win over St Kilda on Saturday night at Etihad Stadium.

“Seeds is a guy that probably hasn’t a great run at it for his entire career to be honest, in terms of continuity of playing and training,” coach Don Pyke said in his post-match press conference.

“He’s been able to string together some really good pre-season training and he’s reaping the benefit of that.

“It’s credit to him and the work he’s done, not just training-wise but a lot of the work he’s had to do away from pure football training to get his body right.”

With influential half-back Brodie Smith sidelined indefinitely with a knee injury, Seedsman has been given license to use his penetrating right boot to drive the Crows into attack.

It’s something the former Magpie has done with great effect, currently ranked second in the AFL for metres gained at an average of 664.8m per game. Smith averaged 494.1m per game in 2017, which ranked eighth in the competition.

Only Hawthorn’s Tom Mitchell, who has collected an unprecedented 94 disposals in his first two games of the year, is ranked higher.

If Seedsman can continue his current form, he’ll not only entrench himself in Don Pyke’s best 22, but become a key cog in Adelaide’s team success.

“We’re now seeing on a fairly consistent basis, for the first three games anyway, of the player that he wants to be, and we think he can be,” Pyke said.