Bucky Brooks · Feb 25, 2026
Brooks says Mendoza is the clear No. 1 who is slotted to the Raiders, puts Jeremiah Love's draft sweet spot at picks eight to nine, and views Omar Cooper as a complementary No. 2/No. 3 receiver worthy of top-50 consideration.
“There's no debate, there's no Fernando Mendoza versus is he's slotted He's going to the Raiders.”
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- Mock Draft PicksFeb 25, 2026
“he's slotted He's going to the Raiders. Let's go to pick number two... But Mendoza there's not a debate about where he's going to go in this class.”
Scored 100a naive guess scored 50How this was scored
- draft:
- 2026
- naive:
- a shuffled mock scores 50
- player:
- Fernando Mendoza
- season:
- 2025
- zero at:
- 32
- accuracy:
- 100
- baseline:
- 50
- actual pick:
- 1
- difficulty:
- 1
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- pick accuracy:
- 100
- predicted pick:
- 1
- weeks left when called:
- 0
- mock ordering score:
- only one pick — no order to score
- Mock Draft PicksFeb 25, 2026
“there's a sweet spot for him to come off the board, and I would say this sweet spot is eight to nine”
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- Depth Chart CallsFeb 25, 2026
“he's more of a robbin than a batman... he's he's a two, a three someone just have a lot of success, an eleven personnel”
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- Mock Draft PicksFeb 25, 2026
“He certainly is worthy of being in that conversation as a top fifty player.”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the season it describes has finished.