{"id":917241,"date":"2026-06-12T22:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/917241\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T22:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:39:23","slug":"fernando-mendoza-drops-a-message-to-las-vegas-raiders-fans-confirming-exactly-what-they-want-to-hear-with-training-camp-on-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/917241\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza drops a message to Las Vegas Raiders fans confirming exactly what they want to hear with training camp on deck"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Las Vegas Raiders just finished up Mandatory Minicamp, and are now gearing up for training camp.<\/p>\n

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The Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> just finished up mandatory minicamp and now have a break before training camp. The last few months have been nothing but rookie minicamp, OTAs, and mandatory minicamp<\/a>. Now there\u2019s a break before training camp kicks off.<\/p>\n

And, it\u2019s a much-needed break, because these players just put in a ton of work. And many of them are already showing improvement. Of course, the most important one, and the one fans want to hear about the most, has to be Fernando Mendoza. He\u2019s the heir to the throne as the franchise quarterback. But he\u2019s starting from the bottom<\/a> and working to earn that title. He\u2019s already getting better.<\/p>\n

Raiders rookie QB Fernando Mendoza says he\u2019s already improved his game<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I think there\u2019s always a transition, especially from the college level to the NFL level, and it\u2019s having those positive stressors and that growing period, and there\u2019s going to be some growing pains,\u201d Mendoza told reporters this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd luckily I feel confident that I\u2019m able to see the field well, and that my growing pains are coming from, \u2018Hey, I\u2019ve got to time up my footwork a little better with the routes,\u2019 and intricacies here and there, and I\u2019m really working hard with coaching staff who\u2019s pushing me and have done a phenomenal job of relaying and communicating the information needed, and it\u2019s up to me to take full advantage of that, and I feel like I\u2019ve been growing every day from the first day of OTAs, then today in minicamp, I feel like I\u2019m leaps and bounds ahead of where I was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fernando Mendoza on his development 7 weeks into his NFL tenure:<\/p>\n

“I feel like I’ve been growing every day from the first day of OTAs to today and mini camp. I feel like I’m leaps and bounds ahead of where I was.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sam Warren (@samwarren83) June 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the biggest things that people held against Mendoza coming out of college was that he didn\u2019t play from under center very often. This was seen as a bad thing because the Raiders are expected to do that a lot under Klint Kubiak. And playing from under center just adds an unexpected variable to the equation that the defense has to try to guess.<\/p>\n

We know that Mendoza went to work on that almost immediately. We know that the Raiders immediately got him running bootleg plays. We also know that Mendoza has probably done a million under-center reps by now. And, he probably thinks that\u2019s not enough. So, fans should be excited, especially to see more of him in training camp very soon.<\/p>\n

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The Las Vegas Raiders have a very talented and competitive wide receiver room heading into the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders just finished up Mandatory Minicamp, and are now gearing up for training camp. Jun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[3619,7,1744,393,2455,2454,29236,6,8405,1257,525,8896],"class_list":["post-917241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-las-vegas-raiders","tag-fernando-mendoza","tag-football","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-lasvegas","tag-lasvegasraiders","tag-mandatory-minicamp","tag-nfl","tag-otas","tag-quarterback","tag-raiders","tag-training-camp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116739543362623618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917241","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=917241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}