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'It doesn’t feel real' – Charlotte's Grant DuBose on amazing journey from Wal-Mart to stardom

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – With a halogen grin, Charlotte receiver Grant DuBose pulled out his cellphone and scrolled through the pictures.

He pulled up a shot from last September, when he spent the fall working at Wal-Mart after his season got canceled at Division II Miles (Alabama) College. He spent that time working three jobs, including two at a commissary on a local military base and at a local manufacturing plant, Glovis Alabama, in his hometown of Montgomery.

“I worked in online grocery pickup,” he said of Wal-Mart. “So people who placed online grocery orders, I took care of them.