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For the first time as a Jet, Garrett Wilson was voted a captain by his teammates.

It’s the latest sign of the young receiver emerging as a leader, after he signed a four-year contract extension in the offseason .

“I’ve had some accolades since I got in the league, but this is the one that I’ll probably tell my kids about first,” Wilson said Thursday. “That just comes from the last three years here. I’m not the most outspoken guy, I’m maybe not the blueprint of the leader when it comes to a captain. But to know the guys still appreciate the way I go about things and they respond to what I do say, it means the world.”

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