Weighted On-Target Percentage: Fernando Mendoza leads the pack through summer scouting
Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza stacks up well against the rest of the 2026 NFL Draft class, but does his ball placement and accuracy profile?
If you’ve been a subscriber here since the 2025 NFL Draft, then you know that Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza is quite high on my big board entering his Redshirt Junior season.
Mendoza transferred to Indiana after starting two seasons for the Cal Golden Bears. Listed at 6-foot-6 and 225 pounds, Mendoza possesses a quality frame. But his skillset brings even more to love as he now calls Bloomington home.
Despite whatever his box score said from a year ago as the starting quarterback in Berkeley, my eyes immediately lit up when I turned on Mendoza’s tape. He possesses an NFL arm and NFL wits. But does his ball placement and accuracy profile follow suit?
I have my own ball placement and accuracy metric, Weighted On-Target Percentage, that I created in 2020 and have been fine tuning since. I have found it to be relatively correlative to the success that quarterbacks have found at the NFL level as well.
Thus far, I have already written up four Weighted On-Target Percentage profiles, and those can be found below:
So, how does Mendoza stack up to the rest of the 2026 NFL Draft pack? Let’s talk about it.