Mike Bercovici is in his second season as an offensive assistant for the Carolina Panthers after spending three seasons on staff for the Arizona Cardinals. A former NFL quarterback, Bercovici was an offensive assistant for the Cardinals (2022) after serving as a coaching assistant for the team (2020-21). In 2023, he assisted the wide receivers and saw Adam Thielen become just the fourth Panther in franchise history to record 100+ receptions and 1,000+ receiving yards in a single season.
Bercovici began his coaching career in 2019 at his alma mater, Arizona State, as an offensive graduate assistant working with Sun Devil quarterbacks. At ASU, Bercovici tutored true freshman quarterback Jayden Daniels (2023 Heisman Trophy Winner), who passed for 2,943 yards and 17 touchdowns while only throwing two interceptions.
After playing five years (2011-15) at Arizona State, Bercovici entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie free agent (2016) and was on the practice squads of the Chargers (2016-17) and Cardinals (2017) before playing with the San Diego Fleet of the Alliance of American Football (2019).
At ASU, Bercovici threw for 5,333 yards, 42 touchdowns and 13 interceptions on 438 completions while adding 418 rushing yards in 41 career games (16 starts). He finished his college career with a 137.9 passer efficiency rating and accounted for 48 total touchdowns. His 30 touchdowns passes in 2015 are tied for the most in a single season in school history and his three games of five-or-more touchdowns are tied for the second most in ASU single-season history. He was a member of the team's leadership council for four seasons, a team captain as a senior and was selected as the Danny White team Offensive MVP (2015).
Bercovici earned two degrees from Arizona State, a Bachelor of Science degree in business management (2014) and a master's degree in sports law and business (2015). A three-time Pac-12 All-Academic selection, he was named as the 2015 Pac-12 Football Scholar Athlete of the Year and recipient of the Bill Kajikawa Award (2016), given to a graduating male and female Sun Devil student athlete who demonstrated academic excellence, athletic accomplishment, leadership and service in the community. He was also awarded the Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal, presented to male and female athletes at each Pac-12 school who exhibited the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership.
Bercovici attended Taft High School in Los Angeles and threw for 3,755 yards and 37 touchdowns as a senior in 2010. He and his wife, Jaylee, have one daughter, Monroe.
2019 | Arizona State | Offensive Graduate Assistant/Quarterbacks
2020-21 | Arizona Cardinals | Coaching Assistant
2022 | Arizona Cardinals | Offensive Assistant
2023-pres | Carolina Panthers | Offensive Assistant
