{"id":584828,"date":"2026-04-15T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584828\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:20:07","slug":"raiders-letting-teams-calling-about-the-first-pick-know-where-they-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584828\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders letting teams calling about the first pick know where they stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Raiders have the No. 1 overall pick, and it seems a certainty they will draft Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p>General Manager John Spytek acknowledged other teams have an interest in the top pick, but said the Raiders will use the pick without saying the Raiders will use the pick. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/raiders\/raiders-gm-john-spytek-to-discuss-teams-plans-for-nfl-draft-3761971\/?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=topnews&amp;utm_source=sports_raiders&amp;utm_term=Raiders%20GM%20John%20Spytek%3A%20Potential%20No.%201%20pick%20trade%20partners%20%E2%80%98know%20where%20they%20stand%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">We\u2019ve gotten a few calls<\/a>, and those teams know where they stand right now,\u201d Spytek said Tuesday, via Adam Hill of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders signed veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins as a bridge quarterback until Mendoza is ready to play. The team could fill out the card before the draft, unlike last year when they had to wait to take running back Ashton Jeanty sixth overall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot less energy spent on hypotheticals,\u201d Spytek said. \u201cThere\u2019s only one team that can get the exact person they want, and we have that option available to us if we so choose.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders have the No. 1 overall pick, and it seems a certainty they will draft Heisman Trophy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-584828","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\/584828","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=584828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}