{"id":1928844,"date":"2026-08-20T23:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928844"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:34:13","slug":"fernando-mendoza-throws-a-pick-6-struggles-in-1st-half-of-raiders-22-20-preseason-win-over-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928844","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza throws a pick-6, struggles in 1st half of Raiders&#8217; 22-20 preseason win over Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Top draft pick Fernando Mendoza struggled in his second preseason game, throwing an interception that Houston returned for a touchdown before the Las Vegas Raiders rallied late for a 22-20 victory over the Texans on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/0ca39-fernando-mendoza-throws-a-pick-6-struggles-in-1st-half-of-raiders-22-20-preseason-win-over-texans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Top draft pick Fernando Mendoza struggled in his second preseason game, throwing an interception that Houston returned for a touchdown before the Las&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1928845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928846,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928844\/revisions\/1928846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}