Is Brown-Bampoe Exeter's next big star?

Exeter winger Paul Brown-Bampoe has nan imaginable to beryllium adjacent young prima to travel retired of nan Chiefs, according to nan club's head of rugby Rob Baxter.

The 22-year-old erstwhile England Students subordinate has impressed successful pre-season aft signing master terms.

Brown-Bampoe caught Exeter's oculus while playing for Durham successful nan British assemblage championship.

Baxter said he could travel successful nan footsteps of nan likes of Immanuel Feyi-Waboso and Tom O'Flaherty, who person had Premiership occurrence connected nan helping having been comparative unknowns earlier moving to Sandy Park.

"People are alert of really adjacent our links are pinch Exeter University," Baxter told BBC Sport.

"I watch a batch of assemblage games and we've sewage coaching unit progressive and a mates of them were saying to maine 'this feline stands out' successful nan BUCS [British Universities & Colleges Sport] title arsenic a existent finisher, a beardown guy, very fast, astir apt raw.

"I had a bully look astatine him past play and we really brought him successful early past twelvemonth to commencement nan process, he was pinch america from Christmas connected proceedings initially and past stayed pinch us."

Baxter added: "He's speedy and he's large and he's beardown and he's wished and he's master and wants to learn.

"He's sewage each nan earthy ingredients to beryllium a very, very bully player."

Brown-Bampoe scored a hat-trick against Cornish Pirates successful his first pre-season commencement for Exeter and backed it up pinch a effort against Ospreys and different coming disconnected nan chair against Ulster past week.

It has thrust nan winger, who spent clip connected indebtedness astatine Exeter's National One neighbours Plymouth Albion past season, into nan reckoning for a spot successful nan squad for Chiefs' Premiership opener astatine location to Leicester Tigers connected Saturday.

"Because of wherever he is physically, he conscionable needs clip connected nan section and that's wherever we've sewage to activity really difficult connected it," Baxter said.

"With Paul we've either sewage to get him into nan 23 aliases we've sewage to get him retired playing location - that's what he really needs to do - and astir apt walk a batch of clip training here."

He added: "We've sewage to effort and get that equilibrium correct for him, but correct present and now he's very apt to beryllium successful and astir our matchday 23 for Premiership games because of nan measurement he's performed successful pre-season.

"If a young subordinate aliases caller subordinate comes successful and deserves to beryllium successful there, sloppy of whether we've sewage immoderate concerns connected whether they're rather fresh for it aliases rather sewage each nan acquisition they need, we thin to put them in."