Mike Bercovici enters his third season with the Panthers and his first as assistant quarterbacks/pass game specialist. He spent the previous two seasons as an offensive assistant with the team, working primarily with the quarterbacks in 2024 and the wide receivers in 2023.
As an offensive assistant working with the quarterbacks in 2024, Bercovici helped Bryce Young set a career high in passing touchdowns (21) in his second year. In six of the final nine games, Young led the Panthers on game-tying or game-winning drives, including in Week 16 against Arizona, when he became the first Panthers quarterback to throw multiple touchdown passes and rush for at least one since 2021. Young threw at least two touchdown passes in three-straight games to end the season and a passing touchdown in each of the last 10, both the longest streaks of his career.
In his first season with the Panthers (2023), Bercovici was an offensive assistant working with the wide receivers, where he helped Adam Thielen become just the fourth Panther to record 100+ receptions and 1,000+ receiving yards in a single season, and the first to do so since Steve Smith, Sr. (2005). Thielen led the team with 103 receptions and 1,014 yards while totaling four touchdowns and finished tied for third in Panthers history for most receptions in a season.
Before joining the Panthers, Bercovici served as an offensive assistant (2022) and coaching assistant (2020-21) for the Cardinals.
Bercovici began his coaching career in 2019 at his alma mater, Arizona State, as an offensive graduate assistant, working primarily with Sun Devil quarterbacks. At ASU, Bercovici was instrumental in the development of true freshman quarterback and 2023 Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels, who passed for 2,943 yards and 17 touchdowns, while only throwing two interceptions.
After playing for five years (2011-15) at Arizona State, Bercovici entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie free agent and spent time on the Chargers (2016-17) and Cardinals (2017) practice squads before playing with the San Diego Fleet of the Alliance of American Football (2019).
During his collegiate career at ASU, Bercovici threw for 5,333 yards, 42 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, while adding 418 rushing yards in 41 career games (16 starts). He finished his collegiate career with a 137.9 passer rating and accounted for 48 total touchdowns. His 30 touchdown passes in 2015 were tied for the most in a single season in school history, and his three games with five-or-more touchdowns are tied for the second-most in school 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's in business management and a master's in sports law and business. A three-time Pac-12 All-Academic selection, he was named as the 2015 Pac-12 Football Scholar Athlete of the Year and the recipient of the Bill Kajikawa Award in 2016), given to a graduating male and female Sun Devil student athlete who demonstrates academic excellence, athletic accomplishment, leadership and service in the community. Bercovici was also awarded the Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal, presented to male and female athletes at each Pac-12 school who exhibit the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership.
Bercovici attended Taft High School in Los Angeles, California where he threw for 3,755 yards and 37 touchdowns as a senior in 2010. He and his wife, Jaylee, have two daughters, Monroe and Stevie.
- 2019 | Arizona State - Offensive Graduate Assistant/Quarterbacks
- 2020-21 | Arizona Cardinals - Coaching Assistant
- 2022 | Arizona Cardinals - Offensive Assistant
- 2023-24 | Carolina Panthers - Offensive Assistant
- 2025- | Carolina Panthers - Assistant Quarterbacks/Pass Game Specialist
