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Fernando Gabriel Mendoza V (born October 1, 2003) 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 before transferring to the Indiana Hoosiers in 2025, where he won the Heisman Trophy en route to a national championship. He was selected by the Raiders first overall in the 2026 NFL draft.
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | Wingspan | ||||||||
| mw- .mw- 6 ft 4+3⁄4 in(1.95 m) | 236 lb(107 kg) | 31+7⁄8 in(0.81 m) | 9+1⁄2 in(0.24 m) | 6 ft 4+3⁄4 in(1.95 m) | ||||||||
| All values from NFL Combine | ||||||||||||
| Season | Team | Games | Passing | Rushing | ||||||||||||
| GP | GS | Record | Cmp | Att | Pct | Yds | Y/A | TD | Int | Rtg | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | ||
| 2022 | California | Redshirt | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | California | 9 | 8 | 3−5 | 153 | 243 | 63.0 | 1,708 | 7.0 | 14 | 10 | 132.8 | 48 | 92 | 1.9 | 2 |
| 2024 | California | 11 | 11 | 6−5 | 265 | 386 | 68.7 | 3,004 | 7.8 | 16 | 6 | 144.6 | 87 | 105 | 1.2 | 2 |
| 2025 | Indiana | 16 | 16 | 16−0 | 273 | 379 | 72.0 | 3,535 | 9.3 | 41 | 6 | 182.9 | 90 | 276 | 3.1 | 7 |
| Career | 36 | 35 | 25−10 | 691 | 1,008 | 68.6 | 8,247 | 8.2 | 71 | 22 | 156.2 | 225 | 473 | 2.1 | 11 | |