{"id":873852,"date":"2026-04-24T22:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873852\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:03:25","slug":"fernando-mendoza-lands-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873852\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza lands in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mendoza has been expected to be a Raider for months. Friday, he landed at the team\u2019s Henderson, Nevada facility, which should be his workplace for the next decade plus. He is excited that he can finally move on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really glad the outside noise is done,\u201d Mendoza said. \u201cI\u2019m excited to officially to be a Raider \u2026 I have to earn it. I haven\u2019t proven anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his first pubic words since Mendoza was drafted, Kubiak said the Raiders were sold on Mendoza when they went to his Pro Day a few weeks ago. Kubiak said he loves Mendoza\u2019s leadership ability.<\/p>\n

Mendoza spoke of the legacy of the Raiders and he was thrilled to see Raiders\u2019 Super Bowl MVPs, quarterback Jim Plunkett and Hall of Fame wide receiver Fred Biletnikoff, were in attendance Friday. Mendoza will wear No. 15 after getting the blessing from former player and Hall of Fame coach Tom Flores.<\/p>\n

\"Bill<\/a>\"Silver<\/p>\n

Blessing from legend to don No. 15<\/p>\n

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Raiders.com<\/a> is reporting former player and HOF coach Tom Flores gladly is giving his blessing for Fernando Mendoza to wear No. 15. Mendoza said Thursday that was important to him. So order those No. 15 jerseys.<\/p>\n

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Mendoza said he received welcome texts from new teammates Maxx Crosby, Tyler Linderbaum, Kolton Miller and Kirk Cousins since the draft.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s time for them all to go to work on the future of the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mendoza has been expected to be a Raider for months. Friday, he landed at the team\u2019s Henderson, Nevada…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1744,393,2492,4241,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-873852","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-las-vegas-raiders-draft","12":"tag-las-vegas-raiders-news","13":"tag-lasvegas","14":"tag-lasvegasraiders","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116461949361133692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873852","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=873852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}