{"id":255163,"date":"2026-07-29T04:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/klint-kubiak-announces-kirk-cousins-fernando-mendoza-decision-ahead-of-training-camp\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:48:21","slug":"klint-kubiak-announces-kirk-cousins-fernando-mendoza-decision-ahead-of-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/klint-kubiak-announces-kirk-cousins-fernando-mendoza-decision-ahead-of-training-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Klint Kubiak announces Kirk Cousins, Fernando Mendoza decision ahead of training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One of the more intriguing storylines to follow during NFL training camp was expected to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/las_vegas_raiders\/43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> quarterback battle between veteran Kirk Cousins and No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p>While there still may be competition through training camp, Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak made it clear Tuesday as to who his starting quarterback will be.<\/p>\n<h2>Kirk Cousins is the Raiders starting quarterback<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cWhen we go out to practice tomorrow, Kirk Cousins is the starting quarterback,&#8221; Kubiak said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2082178695486222590?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">via NFL insider Ian Rappoport<\/a>. &#8220;He&#8217;s the guy, and he deserves it because he&#8217;s played really good football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cousins signed a five-year, $172 million contract with Las Vegas in the offseason that is really just a one-year, $20 million deal with a club option for $$80 million for the following two years.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\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\/klint_kubiak_announces_kirk_cousins_fernando_mendoza_decision_ahead_of_training_camp\/s1_13132_44111491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more intriguing storylines to follow during NFL training camp was expected to be the Las Vegas Raiders quarterback battle between veteran Kirk Cousins and No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza. While there still may be competition through training camp, Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak made it clear Tuesday as to who his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255164,"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-255163","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\/255163","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=255163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}