{"id":882660,"date":"2026-05-05T00:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/882660\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:36:34","slug":"fernando-mendoza-gets-first-reps-in-at-las-vegas-raiders-rookie-minicamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/882660\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza gets first reps in at Las Vegas Raiders rookie minicamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAS VEGAS (<a href=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\">FOX5<\/a>) \u2014 Las Vegas Raiders rookie minicamp is underway in Henderson, giving the team its first look at rookie Fernando Mendoza on the field in silver and black.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mendoza said the first few days have come with a steep learning curve as he adjusts to the pace and details of the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MORE ON FOX5: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/04\/30\/major-league-soccer-team-bid-submitted-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/04\/30\/major-league-soccer-team-bid-submitted-las-vegas\/\">Major League Soccer team bid submitted for Las Vegas<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe advice I\u2019ve gotten as a rookie you just try to learn as much as possible right now,\u201d Mendoza said. \u201cThere is a lot of information \u2014 it\u2019s coming like a fire hose \u2014 but I\u2019m just trying to take it all in to get better every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mendoza said his focus is on attention to detail and building chemistry with teammates as the Raiders continue offseason work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Organized team activities, known as OTAs, are scheduled to begin in about two weeks. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KVVU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (FOX5) \u2014 Las Vegas Raiders rookie minicamp is underway in Henderson, giving the team its first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[94798,7,1744,393,119186,2455,2454,6,119189,525,119190,119188,119187,119191],"class_list":["post-882660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-las-vegas-raiders","tag-fernando-mendoza-raiders","tag-football","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-las-vegas-raiders-rookie-minicamp","tag-lasvegas","tag-lasvegasraiders","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-rookie-minicamp-las-vegas-raiders","tag-raiders","tag-raiders-news-las-vegas","tag-raiders-offseason-workouts","tag-raiders-rookie-minicamp-henderson","tag-raiders-training-in-henderson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116519173131860155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882660","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=882660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}