{"id":422182,"date":"2026-01-22T04:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/422182\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T04:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:33:12","slug":"fernando-mendoza-updates-linkedin-bio-after-indianas-cfp-title-writes-inspirational-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/422182\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza Updates LinkedIn Bio After Indiana&#8217;s CFP Title, Writes Inspirational Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Fernando Mendoza is probably a few months away from being the top overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft. But that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7419857155547193344\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">above updating<\/a>&#8230; his <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/fernando-mendoza-berkeley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In the section for honors and awards, Mendoza also added that he helped with the &#8220;first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship for the Indiana Hoosiers, completing an undefeated 16-0 season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">There is a proud history of quarterbacks who communicate in what could best be described as &#8220;inspirational poster&#8221; speak\u2014we see you, Russell Wilson and Jalen Hurts\u2014so Mendoza fits the bill in that regard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">More importantly, he just did the once unthinkable, leading Indiana to a national championship in football while winning a Heisman Trophy along the way. Yes, there is going to be a movie someday. The Las Vegas Raiders are just hoping the perfect Hollywood ending includes a legendary NFL career for Mendoza as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">If not, at least his LinkedIn is up-to-date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza is probably a few months away from being the top overall pick in the 2026 NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-422182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}