{"id":570295,"date":"2026-04-07T18:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570295\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:59:07","slug":"fernando-mendoza-informs-nfl-he-will-not-attend-the-draft-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570295\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza informs NFL he will not attend the draft in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The likely No. 1 overall pick will not be in Pittsburgh when his name is called for this year\u2019s draft. <\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Fernando Mendoza has informed the NFL that he\u2019s planning to be in Miami with his family for the draft instead of attending the event in person, according to ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/fernando-mendozas-odds-to-be-first-pick-drop-to-20000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is the heavy favorite<\/a> to be selected by the Raiders at No. 1 overall. It would be an extreme upset if he weren\u2019t the first pick later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL has not released a list of the names of prospects who will be on hand in Pittsburgh for the draft. But the first handshake and hug from commissioner Roger Goodell is now not set to go to the first pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The likely No. 1 overall pick will not be in Pittsburgh when his name is called for this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-570295","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\/570295","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=570295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}