said in a Raiders.com interview<\/a> that Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak\u2019s offense is providing a new challenge for him during offseason work, but it\u2019s a challenge he\u2019s enjoying.<\/p>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a lot more under center variables that I\u2019ve been learning, getting a lot of extra reps in, and I feel a lot more comfortable under center,\u201d Mendoza said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great offense. I really believe in coach Kubak\u2019s offense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mendoza is far from the only quarterback making that adjustment, as many college football offenses keep their quarterbacks in the shotgun for every snap, while NFL teams still expect their quarterbacks to be able to play from under center at least some of the time. Mendoza sounds confident that he\u2019ll be fully adjusted to taking snaps under center by the time the season starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raiders rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza played almost exclusively in the shotgun in college. In the NFL, playing under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-717325","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\/717325","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=717325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}