{"id":768006,"date":"2026-02-22T03:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/768006\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:14:22","slug":"fernando-mendoza-wont-throw-at-nfl-combine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/768006\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza: Won&#8217;t throw at NFL Combine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771465538_325_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mendoza isn&#8217;t planning to throw at the NFL Combine, which begins Monday, but he will throw at Indiana&#8217;s pro day April 1, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza foreshadowed this decision a few weeks ago, when he said on The Pat McAfee Show, &#8220;At the combine, you&#8217;re throwing to different receivers, it&#8217;s a whole different thing. And I want to make sure I give my guys the best chance. I want to throw at pro day with my guys, with my running backs and be there with the boys,&#8221; per Tom Pelissero of NFL Network. Mendoza is widely projected to be the No. 1 overall selection by Las Vegas in the 2026 NFL Draft, while Alabama&#8217;s Ty Simpson &#8212; who is the consensus No. 2 QB in the draft &#8212; is expected to throw at the combine, per Pelissero. Schefter notes that part of Mendoza&#8217;s reason for throwing at Indiana&#8217;s pro day instead of at the Combine is to help showcase the pass catchers he played with last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mendoza isn&#8217;t planning to throw at the NFL Combine, which begins Monday, but he will throw at Indiana&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1999,7,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-768006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-fantasy-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116112109396728475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768006","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=768006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}