{"id":237574,"date":"2026-04-09T05:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/raiders-kirk-cousins-wants-to-learn-one-thing-from-fernando-mendoza\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:05:44","slug":"raiders-kirk-cousins-wants-to-learn-one-thing-from-fernando-mendoza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/raiders-kirk-cousins-wants-to-learn-one-thing-from-fernando-mendoza\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders&#8217; Kirk Cousins wants to learn one thing from Fernando Mendoza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/las_vegas_raiders\/43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> have found their first quarterback of the Klint Kubiak era.<\/p>\n<p>They signed Kirk Cousins to a five-year deal, which functions as a one-year contract, hoping the veteran can be a bridge before the projected No. 1 pick, Fernando Mendoza. Mendoza officially isn&#8217;t a Raider yet, but it seems only a massive turn of events will stop them from taking him with the No. 1 pick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As such, Cousins is already excited not only to mentor the Indiana product but also to learn from him.<\/p>\n<p>In an appearance on &#8220;Good Morning Football,&#8221; Cousins gushed about Mendoza&#8217;s back-shoulder throws, adding that he&#8217;d like to add them to his repertoire.<\/p>\n<h2>Kirk Cousins wants to learn some tricks from Fernando Mendoza<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI was even telling him how much success he had throwing back shoulder at IU, I would like to learn a little bit from him about throwing a good back shoulder,\u201d Cousins <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gmfb\/status\/2041884413173383309\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/raiders_kirk_cousins_wants_to_learn_one_thing_from_fernando_mendoza\/s1_13132_43702918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Vegas Raiders have found their first quarterback of the Klint Kubiak era. They signed Kirk Cousins to a five-year deal, which functions as a one-year contract, hoping the veteran can be a bridge before the projected No. 1 pick, Fernando Mendoza. Mendoza officially isn&#8217;t a Raider yet, but it seems only a massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}