{"id":674443,"date":"2026-01-13T16:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/674443\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:57:14","slug":"are-las-vegas-raiders-fans-convinced-fernando-mendoza-should-be-the-no-1-overall-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/674443\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Las Vegas Raiders fans convinced Fernando Mendoza should be the No. 1 overall draft pick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">It\u2019s been a ride already.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Las Vegas Raiders have owned the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft for just more than a week. Yet it has been a wild ride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Indiana quarterback, the Heisman Trophy winner, had been the early favorite to be the team\u2019s pick. But that went to the next level after his incredible play in a NCAA playoff win over Oregon last week. Mendoza was near perfect in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He looks like the clear-cut choice. The Raiders badly need a young quarterback and Mendoza fits the bill perfectly, it seems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Have you seen enough or do you need to do more?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Perhaps you don\u2019t think Mendoza will be truly worthy of the pick yet? Perhaps their is someone else you want? Perhaps you want to see the Raider trade the pick for a load of compensation. Perhaps you need to see more of Mendoza next week?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Where you at in the process?<\/p>\n<p>Join the conversation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/auth\/login?itm_medium=sidebar&amp;itm_source=silverandblackpride&amp;returnPath=%2Fauth%2Fsso%3FreturnTo%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.silverandblackpride.com%252F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sign up for a user account;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sign up for a user account<\/a> and get:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Comment on articles, community posts<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rec comments, community posts<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New, improved notifications system!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a ride already. The Las Vegas Raiders have owned the No. 1 overall pick in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,12812,96724,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525,5654],"class_list":["post-674443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-las-vegas-raiders","tag-football","tag-heisman-trophy-winner","tag-indiana-quarterback","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-lasvegas","tag-lasvegasraiders","tag-nfl","tag-raiders","tag-the-raiders"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115888851850770027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}