The only outfield player at Kaizer Chiefs to have played every minute in the club's seven matches to date has risen to being the best to date at the club.
Rushwin Dortley has stood head and shoulders above the rest at Chiefs this season without any doubt.
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Signed at the beginning of the campaign from Cape Town Spurs, he has already proven why the club forked out millions for him.
The left side of central defence is now 'sorted' with the 22-year-old comfortable in playing both short and long in his play variation, while remaining firm without the ball.
This means for all the issues that Amakhosi have had, none of them have been related to left central defence.
So smart and effective a centre-back is Dortley that while his partner at the back, Inacio Miguel, already has a red card and four yellow cards, the Capetonian is as clean as a whistle.
No caution in 630 minutes as a central defender is proof of how immaculately tidy Dortley is.
This also puts him in the frame for Chiefs' best transfer of the incomings that happened during the off-season.
Hugo Broos, the Bafana Bafana coach, has taken notice by promoting the towering defender from the COSAFA Cup squad.
Dortley has played from start to finish in the last four Bafana games with the question now merely around who partners him between Grant Kekana and Siyabonga Ngezana.
He will get to play his first match for Bafana in front of his home crowd when the senior team hosts South Sudan on November 19.
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From his first appearance against Uganda, Dortley looked settled, ticking all the appropriate boxes which come with that position – strength, tactical awareness, comfort on the ball, effective marking, anticipation, command and communication.
Dortley is the youngest of all the signings that Chiefs have made in this window and had only played a single season in top-flight football prior to this campaign.