{"id":596124,"date":"2026-02-17T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/596124\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:31:10","slug":"klint-kubiak-fernando-mendoza-has-a-bright-future-i-look-forward-to-getting-to-know-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/596124\/","title":{"rendered":"Klint Kubiak: Fernando Mendoza has a bright future, I look forward to getting to know him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months before the 2026 NFL draft, everyone expects the Raiders to make Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza the first overall pick. But right now, Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak says he doesn\u2019t know Mendoza well enough to say.<\/p>\n<p>Although Kubiak said in an <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6UWDyqVZbFg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">interview on the Raiders\u2019 YouTube channel<\/a> that he likes everything he\u2019s seen from Mendoza so far, what he\u2019s seen isn\u2019t much because Kubiak spent the last football season coordinating the Seahawks\u2019 offense, not watching college football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy exposure is very limited,\u201d Kubiak said. \u201cI saw him play the national championship game, I saw the interviews he\u2019s given after those games and how team-oriented he is. I look forward to getting to know the player better, but obviously a really talented guy with a bright future. We\u2019ll see. We\u2019ll see where it ends up. But we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do to get to know him before that time comes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still possible that the Raiders will decide Mendoza isn\u2019t the right quarterback for Kubiak\u2019s offense, or that some team would blow the Raiders away with a trade offer for the No. 1 overall pick. But at this point, it appears highly likely that Kubiak will get to know Mendoza not just over the next two months, but for years to come as the two of them work together to turn the Raiders franchise around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two months before the 2026 NFL draft, everyone expects the Raiders to make Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":596125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-596124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116085515069234019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}