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Before this Dolphins receiver was eluding NFL defenders, he was chasing chickens

So how do you go from undrafted and overlooked to leading the league in yards per catch and breaking more tackles per reception than any other NFL receiver during the past five years?

By chasing chickens, apparently.

That, plus elusiveness, quickness and a toughness and physicality that belie Albert Wilson’s 5-9, 186-pound frame.

But let’s get back to chickens.

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When Wilson was an elementary school student in Fort Pierce, his grandmother — who owned hens — gave Wilson a task: catch chickens from other neighborhoods because they needed “certain rosters to mate with the hens.