{"id":860398,"date":"2026-04-08T06:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:35:17","slug":"fernando-mendoza-not-planning-to-attend-nfl-draft-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860398\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza not planning to attend NFL Draft: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KSNV)  \u2014 Projected first-overall pick Fernando Mendoza is not planning to attend this month&#8217;s NFL Draft in person, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48421461\/sources-fernando-mendoza-not-planning-attend-nfl-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN reported Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza will stay with his family in Miami, where he grew up, per ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n<p>The first round of the 2026 NFL Draft is scheduled for Thursday, April 23, in Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p>The Las Vegas Raiders hold the first pick and are widely expected to draft Mendoza, who is reportedly scheduled to meet with the team on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Other first-overall picks have opted not to attend in person, including Travon Walker when the NFL Draft was in Las Vegas in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 Projected first-overall pick Fernando Mendoza is not planning to attend this month&#8217;s NFL Draft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-860398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-las-vegas","10":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","11":"tag-lasvegas","12":"tag-lasvegasraiders","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116367702609608896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860398","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=860398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}