{"id":495552,"date":"2026-10-14T07:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495552\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:08:08","slug":"bulldog-breakdown-quarterback-jayden-mandal-stabilizing-dogs-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495552\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldog Breakdown: Quarterback Jayden Mandal stabilizing &#8216;Dogs offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno State struggled with quarterback play last season, but so far this year, Jayden Mandal has stabilized the position as the Bulldogs are set to square off with rival San Diego State this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The hometown kid has passed for eight touchdowns, rushed for two and hasn&#8217;t thrown an interception since Week 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A lot of Jayden&#8217;s success is credited to his pass catchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Six different players caught passes from Mandal on Saturday and head coach Matt Entz says the chemistry between his quarterback and receivers is a game-changer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I think our quarterback has great trust in not just a couple of guys but the entire room. That happens when no one is paying attention. That happened in June, that happened in May,&#8221; Entz said. &#8220;I know there was a game earlier this year when he had 11 different people catch passes from him. Jayden doesn&#8217;t care. He&#8217;s not looking for a certain person. He&#8217;s just going through his progression and going through his reads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Josiah Freeman is the team&#8217;s leading receiver but Ezekiel Avit had a two-touchdown night against Boise State, proving to be another trusted target for Mandal and the &#8216;dogs.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno State struggled with quarterback play last season, but so far this year, Jayden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[192615,7129,112,114,113,1081],"class_list":["post-495552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-192615","tag-bulldog-breakdown","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-no-ta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495552","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=495552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}