Mendoza making moves<\/p>\n
Slowly but surely, Fernando Mendoza<\/a> is coming along.<\/p>\n The Raiders coaching staff has been easing the No. 1 pick into the mix, with veterans Cousins and Aidan O’Connell<\/a> seeing the majority of reps. Mendoza had a pretty clean day of practice and made some big time throws to the likes of Jackson and Dont’e Thornton Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n A noticeable area of improvement from rookie minicamp to now is Mendoza’s footwork and mechanics. He’s been getting a lot more action directly under center in practice, something he rarely did in college.<\/p>\n “I think Fernando has done a phenomenal job playing under center,” assistant head coach Mike McCoy said post-practice, “and the great thing is, is that he’s got a ton of work of doing it since we got here. … There’s a system that’s in place, and Coach [Klint Kubiak] and the rest of the staff, we’re installing a system for the long haul. And so, this is what we’re going to run, this is how we’re going to do it. … But he’s done an outstanding job with it.”<\/p>\n “I feel confident that I’m able to see the field well,” Mendoza said, “and that my growing pains are coming from, ‘Hey, I’ve got to time up my footwork a little better with the routes,’ and intricacies here and there, and I’m really working hard with coaching staff who’s pushing me and have done a phenomenal job of relaying and communicating the information needed. It’s up to me to take full advantage of that, and I feel like I’ve been growing every day from the first day of OTAs, then today in minicamp, I feel like I’m leaps and bounds ahead of where I was.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mendoza making moves Slowly but surely, Fernando Mendoza is coming along. The Raiders coaching staff has been easing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[23481,23482,99],"class_list":["post-695321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-home-centerpiece","tag-home-latest-stories","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695321","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=695321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}