The scene at Saint Louis School in Honolulu almost exactly a decade ago must have been a sight to see.

The mature quarterback helping coach kids at his old high school was Marcus Mariota, just a few months before winning the Heisman Trophy for the Oregon Ducks and becoming the No. 2 overall pick of the Tennessee Titans.

Mariota’s prize pupil that day was 16-year-old Tua Tagovailoa, who would win a national championship at Alabama and become a record-setting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins.

The kid off to the side? That was 6-year-old Trent Seaborn, who didn’t look like much physically but was already showing signs of having something special as a quarterback.

Mariota and Tagovailoa are already quarterback legends.

Seaborn seems well on his way to joining them.

Seaborn is now 16 himself (the same age Tagovailoa was that day) and ready to build on a career at Thompson High School that could make him one of the most decorated football players in state history.

Already Seaborn has started 17 games for the Warriors (four as an 8th-grader when he came off the bench to lead Thompson to the Class 7A state championship) and all 13 games as a freshman when Thompson made it back to the state championship game.

At this pace, Seaborn could finish his high school career with more than 60 starts, an absurd number for a quarterback playing in the state’s largest classification.

In the Warriors’ spring game at South Alabama’s Hancock Whitney Stadium, Seaborn completed 15 of 20 passes for 215 yards, including touchdown throws of 5 yards to Darion Moseley and 18 and 64 yards to Pryce Lewis. The result was a 28-7 win over Daphne in the first half when the starters for both teams played.

“I’ve definitely improved on my pocket presence and being able to maneuver around the rush,” Seaborn said. “Being in this system for another year has been a huge help.”

Seaborn is now a solid 6-foot-1, 190 pounds, 30 pounds heavier than he was when he became a starter.

College recruiters have taken notice. This summer he has camp visits locked in at LSU and Ohio State.

“Hopefully we can get to USC and Clemson, also,” Seaborn said. “We’re doing 7-on-7 camps at Alabama and Auburn as a team, so I think that’s all I’ll do at those schools.”

Seaborn’s connection to the Tagovailoa family – he was coached by the dad of Tua and Taulia as a kid — is a big reason why he and his family ended up in Alabama and why the quarterback began cheering for the Crimson Tide.

But now it’s time for Seaborn to write his own story and become the latest person on that Honolulu field to become a quarterback legend.

Seaborn’s coach, Mark Freeman, knows how special his young quarterback already is.

“He’s like coaching a college kid,” Freeman said. “He’s 6-1, 190 now. When he played in his first state championship game, he was 5-8, 150. To make him elite in every situation, we have to keep working on his speed and muscle twitch – the things that would separate him from the rest. He already throws as good or better than anyone. He’s smart. He studies the game. He’s strong in the weight room. He’s complete.”

Freeman said Seaborn will continue to be ranked among the state’s and nation’s top QBs.

“He’s projected to be like 6-3,” he said. “He’s very smart with a lot of plays already behind him. He’s getting top-level experience playing against Division 1 kids every day in practice and against them every Friday. It’s literally amazing what the kid can do.”

Seaborn and the Warriors will be in the national spotlight when they open the season against out-of-state powers Grayson High of Georgia and Lipscomb Academy of Tennessee.

The ultimate goal for Thompson is the same every year.

“Getting that blue map again,” said Seaborn, whose team lost to Central-Phenix City in the Class 7A title game last December. “The goal is always getting to the final game and winning it.”

(Staff writer Ben Thomas contributed to this report)