{"id":872874,"date":"2026-04-23T16:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872874\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:15:29","slug":"5-things-to-watch-for-in-indiana-footballs-spring-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872874\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things to watch for in Indiana football\u2019s spring game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Indiana football is officially set for the program\u2019s spring game this evening, which will coincide with the beginning of the 2026 NFL Draft in an effort to celebrate outgoing starting quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner and national champion Fernando Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former TCU quarterback Josh Hoover has stepped into Mendoza\u2019s massive shoes as an experienced hand to guide head coach Curt Cignetti and offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan\u2019s offense this season and Thursday\u2019s spring game will provide the first semi-official look at him in cream and crimson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s five things to watch for in the spring game:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana football is officially set for the program\u2019s spring game this evening, which will coincide with the beginning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,26781],"class_list":{"0":"post-872874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-indiana-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116454917644233868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872874","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=872874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}