Fernando Mendoza Is Exactly What the Raiders Have Been Missing
It took 19 years. Nineteen years since the Las Vegas Raiders last drafted a quarterback in the first round and […]
Kirby Lee-Imagn Images It took 19 years. Nineteen years since the Las Vegas Raiders last drafted a quarterback in the first round and the guy they picked back then — JaMarcus Russell — became one of the most cautionary tales in NFL history. Thursday night in Pittsburgh, the Raiders called a completely different kind of name .
One that, if everything breaks right, could define this franchise for the next decade and beyond. Fernando Mendoza. No.
1 overall. A Raider. Say it again.
It sounds good. Mendoza is a Game Changer on the Field and Off Kirby Lee-Imagn Images In one season with Indiana, Mendoza became the first Heisman Trophy winner in program history while leading the Hoosiers to their first Big Ten title, first Rose Bowl victory, and first national championship — all on a perfect season. He threw 41 touchdown passes, completed 72 percent of his attempts, and posted an otherworldly 8:0 touchdown-to-interception ratio in the College Football Playoff.
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