# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fernando-mendoza
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:23:31.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fernando-mendoza"
name: "Fernando Mendoza"
slug: "fernando-mendoza"
description: "Fernando Gabriel Mendoza V is an American professional football quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He 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."
tagline: "American football quarterback (born 2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2026-0117_Fernando_Mendoza.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "2003-10-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.8
  momentum:             4.49108367626886
  historical:           8.530341333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Mendoza"
    title: "Fernando Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Mendoza"
    title: "Fernando Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Mendoza"
    title: "Fernando Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Mendoza"
    title: "Fernando Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Mendoza"
    title: "Fernando Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Mendoza"
    title: "Fernando Mendoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5"
    title: "フェルナンド・メンドーサ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123411920"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump