Fernando Mendoza finished the 2025 season on top of the college football world as the Heisman-winning quarterback of Indiana’s national championship team, but it hasn’t taken him long to figure out that the NFL is a very different beast.
Mendoza started Thursday night’s preseason game against the Texans and saw his third pass of the game get intercepted for an 80-yard touchdown by Houston linebacker Wade Woodaz. Mendoza, who would finish his night 8-of-15 for 86 yards, said after the game that “it was not a good throw” to fullback Connor Heyward and that it taught a lesson about how “one tiny mistake can lead to catastrophe.”
“I came away with…
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