Sport
Fernando Mendoza ‘a lot more confident’ ahead of Raiders starting debut
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
1 in the 3 before
Rising
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 4 to 5 newsrooms by 8:23pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 76% of the past week’s 4087 stories, and number 107 of 1123 in Sport.Why it’s moving
- ScoopCBS Sports had it 15 hr before anyone else.
1File photo: Fernando Mendoza
Fernando Mendoza had the reins of the Raiders offense at practice, replacing Kirk Cousins amid the Tuesday trade, but not before giving his mentor his flowers.
In Las Vegas Review-Journal’s words.2
Background: Fernando Mendoza
Fernando Gabriel Mendoza V is an American professional football quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). Mendoza played college football for the California Golden Bears of the University of California, Berkeley for three seasons before transferring to the Indiana Hoosiers in 2025, where he won the Heisman Trophy and the 2026 national championship.3
The story so far
4 newsroomsRising- Reports
- 6
- Newsrooms and sources
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 2
Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (2 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: CBS Sports, 15 hr 28 min before anyone else.
Reported by 4 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Reports |
|---|---|
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 0 |
| Wed | 1 |
| Today | 5 |
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Reports
- 6
- Over
- 1.2 days
- To three newsrooms
- 1 days
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Wed, 11 Nov, 9:11am AEDT | CBS Sports | 1 |
| Thu, 12 Nov, 12:39am AEDT | The Athletic | 2 |
| Thu, 12 Nov, 9:49am AEDT | Yahoo Sports | 3 |
| Thu, 12 Nov, 1:18pm AEDT | Las Vegas Review-Journal | 4 |
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