Mike Bercovici

Offensive Assistant

College: Arizona State

Biography

Mike Bercovici is in his first season as an offensive assistant for the Carolina Panthers after spending the previous three seasons on staff for the Arizona Cardinals. A former quarterback for the Cardinals and Arizona State, Bercovici spent the 2022 season as an offensive assistant for the Cardinals after serving as a coaching assistant for the team from 2020-21.

Bercovici joined the Cardinals staff after beginning 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, who passed for 2,943 yards and 17 touchdowns while only throwing two interceptions.

After playing four years (2012-15) at Arizona State, Bercovici entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie free agent in 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 in 2019.

As a player 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. Bercovici was a member of the team's leadership council in four consecutive seasons, was a team captain as a senior and was selected as the Danny White team Offensive MVP in 2015.

Bercovici earned two degrees from Arizona State, a bachelor of science degree in Business Management in 2014 and a master's degree in Sports Law and Business in 2015. He was named to the Pac-12 All-Academic team three times and was selected as the 2015 Pac-12 Football Scholar Athlete of the Year.

In 2016, Bercovici was selected as the recipient of the Bill Kajikawa Award, given to a gradating 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 is married to his wife, Jaylee.

COACHING HISTORY

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