Eduardo Camavinga is not your average teenage football prodigy.
The game has known plenty of players who have made their professional breakthroughs while still in the acne and bumfluff phase of their lives—Pele, Diego Maradona, Wayne Rooney, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe—but almost all of them have been attacking players.
A coach can throw on a young forward safe in the knowledge that the worst that is likely to happen (barring a disastrous rush of blood to the head) is that they give the ball away in a harmless area of the pitch.
What makes Camavinga's emergence with Rennes so remarkable is that the 16-year-old generally plays in front of the defence in a midfield holding role—a position where even the smallest miscalculation can prove fatal.