{"id":551209,"date":"2026-03-28T22:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551209\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:16:07","slug":"fernando-mendoza-is-learning-the-raiders-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551209\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza is learning the Raiders&#8217; offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Raiders have 26 days until it becomes official. For now, it seems increasingly likely that Las Vegas will be using the first overall pick in the 2026 draft on Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Friday\u2019s Pat McAfee Show, NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah said that Mendoza is learning the Raiders\u2019 offense, under the supervision of former NFL quarterback and assistant coach Brian Griese.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFernando Mendoza is working with Brian Griese right now, and it\u2019s not so much that they\u2019re working on footwork,\u201d Jeremiah said, via Matt Holder of SB Nation. \u201cThey\u2019re <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/fernando-mendoza-reportedly-already-learning-140000936.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">installing the Raiders\u2019 offense<\/a>. He\u2019s full speed ahead. This is the same thing that happened with [Joe] Burrow, where you can use this time to really try and learn the core verbiage and concepts along with an offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griese and Raiders coach Klint Kubiak spent a year together with the 49ers, in 2023. Griese left coaching after the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza is the overwhelming favorite \u2014 at -10000 \u2014 to be the first overall pick in the draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders have 26 days until it becomes official. For now, it seems increasingly likely that Las Vegas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-551209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551209","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=551209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}