{"id":795726,"date":"2026-03-06T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/795726\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:38:18","slug":"ap-mock-draft-1-0-edge-rushers-go-2-3-4-after-raiders-take-qb-fernando-mendoza-no-1-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/795726\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Mock Draft 1.0: Edge rushers go 2-3-4 after Raiders take QB Fernando Mendoza No. 1 overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZWH4ESCF25BD7NWEIPLNBHIK5I\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fernando-mendoza-combine-nfl-draft-435a31664054ffaa5d9ba65cd9fef60b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Mendoza<\/a> won a Heisman Trophy, led Indiana to its first national championship and will be the No. 1 overall pick when the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/raiders-nfl-draft-fernando-mendoza-29a9a1884ccd098250be172d8187c3ba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> are on the clock next month.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5XOBW2MVJNBHXHRFVERBXKYOGY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> draft isn\u2019t that clear-cut. It\u2019s not even a certainty another quarterback will be selected in the first round after Mendoza, though Ty Simpson made a strong case at the scouting combine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza won a Heisman Trophy, led Indiana to its first national championship and will be the No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2065],"tags":[104526,111746,7,1744,393,2455,2454,6,111730,15,498,40927,42950,835,110248,8865,525,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-795726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-2026-nfl-schedule","9":"tag-fbn-nfl-mock-draft","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-las-vegas","12":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","13":"tag-lasvegas","14":"tag-lasvegasraiders","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-2026-news","17":"tag-nfl-draft","18":"tag-nfl-football","19":"tag-nfl-highlights","20":"tag-nfl-latest-news","21":"tag-nfl-news","22":"tag-nfl-schedule-2026","23":"tag-nfl-scores","24":"tag-raiders","25":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116181330030974544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795726","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=795726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}