{"id":213792,"date":"2026-03-10T22:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213792\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:41:11","slug":"what-are-the-chances-that-no-1-overall-pick-becomes-a-good-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213792\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the chances that No. 1 overall pick becomes a good choice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Las Vegas Raiders, of course, own the No.1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barring an unexpected change, the Raiders are expected to use the pick on Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza. Then, the team and its fan base will hope Mendoza turns out to be a quality NFL player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As Raiders\u2019 fans know, there is nothing worse when it comes to the draft than seeing the No. 1 overall pick become a bust. Bad Jamarcus Russell memories aside, the odds seen pretty strong that Mendoza will be a hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to the study, 68 percent of the picks became a Pro Bowl player. Eight percent became All-Pros and nine percent were busts. I think, a this point, Raiders fans would be pleased if Mendoza earned a few Pro Bowl berths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders, of course, own the No.1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft. Barring an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[56640,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-213792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-las-vegas-raiders-draft","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}