{"id":77386,"date":"2026-08-13T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/no-1-pick-fernando-mendoza-throws-for-touchdown-in-las-vegas-raiders-preseason-debut\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:55:00","slug":"no-1-pick-fernando-mendoza-throws-for-touchdown-in-las-vegas-raiders-preseason-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/no-1-pick-fernando-mendoza-throws-for-touchdown-in-las-vegas-raiders-preseason-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"No 1 pick Fernando Mendoza throws for touchdown in Las Vegas Raiders preseason debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Heisman winner finishes 10 of 16 for 97 yards<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Arizona beat Las Vegas 27-14 on Thursday night<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Love rushes for 58 yards in Cardinals debut<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No 1 draft pick Fernando Mendoza threw a touchdown pass in his preseason debut for the Las Vegas Raiders in a 27-14 loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Heisman Trophy winner led one touchdown drive for the Raiders (1-0) in four series \u2013 not including a kneel-down at the end of the first half \u2013 and finished 10 of 16 for 97 yards and a six-yard TD pass to Jack Bech.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/13\/fernando-mendoza-raiders-cardinals-nfl-preseason-debut\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heisman winner finishes 10 of 16 for 97 yards Arizona beat Las Vegas 27-14 on Thursday night Love rushes for 58 yards in Cardinals debut No 1 draft pick Fernando Mendoza threw a touchdown pass in his preseason debut for the Las Vegas Raiders in a 27-14 loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday night. &#8230; <a title=\"No 1 pick Fernando Mendoza throws for touchdown in Las Vegas Raiders preseason debut\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/no-1-pick-fernando-mendoza-throws-for-touchdown-in-las-vegas-raiders-preseason-debut\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about No 1 pick Fernando Mendoza throws for touchdown in Las Vegas Raiders preseason debut\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}