The impact the centre-back has had on the team since signing from Philadelphia Union in the summer has led to superlatives being thrown his way off the back of an impressive run of form.

His form has also coincided with Rangers dramatically improving in defence.

Nevin says he has heard the defender compared to Virgil van Dijk who went on to become one of the best in the world after leaving Celtic for Southampton and then Liverpool.

And while he too has been impressed, he reckons that sort of comparison is way over the top.

The pundit told CasinoHawks: "People have been getting a bit carried away. I've heard the words ‘John Stones’, I've heard the words ‘Virgil van Dijk’. Look, it's early days. It's really, really early. 

"But, yeah, he does look as if he is one of the answers that they needed at the moment. And, again, Scottish football is interesting because a lot of decent players, good players come to Scottish football and take a while to settle. 

"I mean, I remember coming back up near the end of my career and thinking, ‘This'll be all right, this'll be easy. I've been playing at the top level in England.’

"Then you thought, ‘Is anyone going to slow down for a minute? Is anyone actually going to go and make intelligent, different runs?’ Or it was just mad. 

"It's extreme up here. It's a different type of football. But he seems to have just walked into it, cruised into it.

"But, yeah, hold on, just give it a while. You know, the winter is coming, a lot of players find it different and difficult over the entirety of a Scottish season, especially when there's one or two mistakes or things go badly. 

"At the moment, yeah, he looks like one of the ones Derek McInnes is going to build the base from."