Fernando Mendoza refuses to attend the NFL Draft

Presumptive first pick of the draft, Indiana QB, Fernando Mendoza, will not attend the NFL Draft, and he has a good reason. He wants to share his draft experience with friends and family in Miami. Since Mendoza is a lock for the overall No.

1 pick, who will be going to the Las Vegas Raiders , it makes sense he’d want to stay home. Over the years, we’ve seen several quarterbacks have to sit through a draft for several rounds before they were drafted. Two players come to mind.

Shedeur Sanders and Aaron Rodgers. It was torture for not only Sanders, but the rest of the audience to watch as he slipped round after round until the Cleveland Browns drafted him in the fifth round. Mel Kiper Jr.

thought that Sanders should have gone higher, and it turned into a huge controversy, with Kiper calling out teams that didn’t draft Sanders. We also had to watch an embarrassed Aaron Rodgers sit through several rounds of his draft before the Green Bay Packers picked him up. Teams like his hometown favorite, the San Francisco 49ers, passed on the four-time NFL MVP.