{"id":462303,"date":"2026-02-11T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462303\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:17:09","slug":"klint-kubiak-a-lot-of-tape-to-watch-to-determine-who-first-pick-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462303\/","title":{"rendered":"Klint Kubiak: A lot of tape to watch to determine who first pick will be"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Raiders introduced Klint Kubiak as their head coach at a press conference on Thursday and one of the first questions he fielded had to do with the first overall pick in this year\u2019s draft. <\/p>\n

Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza is widely expected to be that pick, but Kubiak steered clear of discussing the Heisman Trophy winner when asked for his impressions of his play. Kubiak did say that the Raiders having the pick in their possession was an attractive part of the chance to join the team, though. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe resources that<\/a> the Raiders have \u2014 this building, having cap space, having the first pick \u2014 those all go into the decision,\u201d Kubiak said. \u201cAs far as who the first pick is gonna be, we have a lot of tape to watch to before we determine who that\u2019s gonna be. I\u2019m excited to get into that process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given the Raiders\u2019 need for a quarterback, it would come as a great shock if anyone other than Mendoza is the first name called in Pittsburgh this April but there\u2019s not much reason for anyone with the organization to show their cards on February 10. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders introduced Klint Kubiak as their head coach at a press conference on Thursday and one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-462303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462303","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=462303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}