Seahawks vs. Raiders Fantasy Football Worksheet, Week 10

The Worksheet, a comprehensive fantasy football preview by Rich Hribar, breaks down everything you need to know about the Seahawks vs. Raiders Week 10 matchup.

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Fernando Mendoza

Mendoza will be taking over as the starter for the remainder of the season following the trade of Kirk Cousins.

When Mendoza played this preseason, he completed 25 of 45 passes (55.6%) for 240 yards (5.3 Y/A) with 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions.

After two seasons at Cal, Mendoza transferred to Indiana, where he and the team reeled off a 16-0 season and a National Championship.

After throwing 30 passing touchdowns over his two seasons at Cal, Mendoza threw 41 passing touchdowns in his final season at Indiana.

The former 3-star recruit improved his completion percentage and yards per pass attempt in all three college seasons.

His final-season completion percentage (72%) ranked in the 94th percentile, his touchdown-to-interception rate (41 to 6) ranked in the 92nd percentile, and his 9.3 yards per pass attempt sat at the 84th percentile among all prospects since 2000.

Mendoza's calling cards are that he has prototypical size (6-foot-5 and 236 pounds) and plays on schedule with accuracy.

A class-high 79% of his throws were on target in 2025.

On 139 career red-zone dropbacks, Mendoza threw only 1 interception while taking 7 sacks.

On third and fourth downs, Mendoza had a class-high 75.3% on-target throw rate and a class-high 14.7% touchdown rate.

Mendoza benefited from a heavy RPO offense predicated on a high rate of throws outside the numbers and into traffic.

23.4% of his dropbacks and 25.4% of his pass attempts last season were on RPO calls, by far the highest rates of this class.

Mendoza only threw 55.2% of his passes over the middle of the field (12th in this class).

If you look at the current state of the NFL, we have seen a spike in more condensed formations and a continued spike in playing under center, turning your back to the defense, and using traditional play action.

That has become more relevant here under Klint Kubiak.

Cousins was under center for 45.8% of his snaps this season (7th) and used play action on 27.6% of his dropbacks.

Over his three collegiate seasons, Mendoza has had only 6 under-center dropbacks.

Mendoza is not a run-first passer, but he was in the 53rd percentile in career rushing output.

He had a 7.7% scramble rate last season, which was seventh in this class.

I don't think Mendoza has the creativity of a Brock Purdy when things are out of structure, but his top-down fantasy archetype is in the same ballpark.

Mendoza has the profile of a weekly QB2 for fantasy.

In his first NFL start, he is a back-end option, facing arguably the worst opponent you could ask for.

Seattle is second in passing points allowed (9.2 per game), allowing a league-low 5.5 yards per pass attempt and a 3.3% touchdown rate (5th).

The Seahawks allow a league-low 168.8 passing yards per game.

Rookie quarterbacks are 1-8 going against Mike Macdonald-led defenses.

In those nine starts, those passers completed 61.1% of their passes for 4.9 yards per attempt.

They had 2 touchdowns, 10 interceptions, and took 31 sacks.

They averaged 9.1 fantasy points per game.

Drew Lock

Lock was a game manager last week, completing 19 of 28 passes (67.9%) for 175 yards (6.2 Y/A), 1 touchdown, and no interceptions.

He ended the week as the QB19 (12.6 points).

Lock entered last week battling an elbow injury.

He ended the game with an oblique injury on top of that.

The expectation is that Lock can manage the injury, but we should enter the week with mild expectations that Seattle will open up the offense.

Seattle played a ball-control offense on Sunday against the Cardinals, throwing the ball 4.4% below pass-rate expectations.

Against a rookie quarterback and the league's worst run defense, Seattle should be able to do the same this week.

That makes Lock more of a floor-based QB2.

If Lock is good to go and the Seahawks have to throw, he has a strong matchup.

The Raiders are 30th in passing points allowed per attempt (0.56), allowing a 65.6% completion rate (24th), 8.0 Y/A (27th), and a 7.2% touchdown rate (30th).

They have allowed multiple touchdown passes in seven straight games.

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