In just eight senior games, O'Meara has been compared to everyone from Chris Judd to Trent Cotchin to Joel Selwood.
He is averaging 20 disposals and four tackles a game in his first year, and despite now feeling like he belongs at the top level, the 19-year-old is far from content.
O'Meara is confident, intensely driven, but never satisfied.
He sets the bar high, aiming for teammate and the game's number one player – as ranked by the AFL Official Player Ratings - Gary Ablett.
"I know I've still got a lot of work to do and I'd like to impact more on games," he said on Thursday.
"I'm not impacting the way guys like Gary Ablett are. I've got a lot of work to do to get to that level, but that's the level I want to get to and I'll keep working to do that."
Even last Saturday night's 26 disposals and one freakish goal performance against the Western Bulldogs left him wanting more.
O'Meara said opponent Ryan Griffen (29 disposals) had the better of their battle, something he clearly wasn't happy about.
"I think it's important not to look at statistics," he said.
"It doesn't matter if you get 26 disposals or 10. You've got to make sure that every disposal counts and I think that's something I've learnt off Gary Ablett.
"He takes pride in every disposal. I had a couple of miskicks on the weekend and I was pretty annoyed at myself and I've just got to keep working on that and make every disposal count.
"It's a tough industry so if you're not a hard marker you're in the wrong sport. I think it's important to be a hard marker on yourself."
O'Meara said the comparisons to senior players were humbling, but he was happy being on the Gold Coast and out of the media spotlight.
He said running with players like Griffen and Port Adelaide duo Hamish Hartlett and Travis Boak early in his career had also been valuable.
"It definitely is a learning curve," he said.
"You get to see the way they run and how demanding they are of their teammates, and that's the level I want to eventually get to and hopefully that'll be in the short term rather than the long term."
At the rate he's going, it's hard to see anything but that happening.
Michael Whiting covers Gold Coast for AFL.com.au. Follow him on Twitter: @AFL_mikewhiting
