One of the more intriguing training camp and preseason positional battles in the NFL this year will be unfolding in the Nevada desert.<\/p>\n
Yes, the quarterback battle between veteran Kirk Cousins and No. 1 overall draft pick Fernando Mendoza to see who will start the regular seasons as the Las Vegas Raiders\u2019 quarterback will be a big one and it will be in the national spotlight. Advertisement<\/p>\n Cousins is priced at -200, while Mendoza is priced at +168. The odds of any other quarterback starting for the Silver and Black in Week 1 is 20-1.<\/p>\n These odds aren\u2019t surprising. The Raiders\u2019 brass is on the record as saying they would prefer if a rookie quarterback sits and watches to start the season. So, it makes sense that the 38-year-old Cousins is the favorite at this point.<\/p>\n But it will all unfold on the practice field and in the preseason games this summer<\/p>\n In other Raiders\u2019 news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the more intriguing training camp and preseason positional battles in the NFL this year will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11450,80289,44371,10775,123,1763,125,124,12034,14399],"class_list":["post-279619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-fernando-mendoza","tag-henderson","tag-kirk-cousins","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-nevada","tag-news-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It;s so big there are betting odds on it. According to our friends at FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a>, Cousins is the betting favorite to be under center for the Raiders when they open the season against the Miami Dolphins<\/a> at Allegiant Stadium on September 13.<\/p>\n