We asked AI to predict Fernando Mendoza's NFL career path. Here are the results
USA TODAY Sports asked AI to predict Fernando Mendoza's NFL career, stats and other awards. The results might surprise you.
Two things are true when it comes to the future: you don't know what it holds and you would like to know what it holds. Everyone is different, but there is clearly a market for the fortune teller profession. If there weren't, we wouldn't have random genies at arcades attempting to signal what is coming next.
Fortune cookies wouldn't exist. The psychic industry would cease to exist, and don't even get us started on the Magic 8-Ball. The modern world has gifted us plenty of conveniences and luxuries, things that would've been unimaginable previously.
One of them is the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), which often replaces organic intelligence in the name of convenience. Whatever the reason, USA TODAY Sports has enjoyed peeling back the curtain behind the technology to test its skills as it relates to the NFL. After plenty of mock drafts , including one that is probably the worst of all-time , we decided to take it to a new level.
Predicting Fernando Mendoza's career ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft . We asked Microsoft Copilot to "predict Fernando Mendoza's career path, including record, awards, Super Bowl wins, teams and other key stats," to see what happened. The chatbot gave us a modern-day time capsule, which we can look back on and track its success.