Mike Bercovici enters his fourth season with the Panthers and his first as offensive passing game coordinator. He spent last season as assistant quarterbacks coach/pass game specialist, and theprevious two seasons as an offensive assistant with the team, working primarily with the quarterbacks (2024) and the wide receivers (2023).

Mike Bercovici enters his fourth season with the Panthers and his first as offensive passing game coordinator. He spent last season as assistant quarterbacks coach/pass game specialist, and theprevious two seasons as an offensive assistant with the team, working primarily with the quarterbacks (2024) and the wide receivers (2023).

During the 2025 season, Bercovici helped steer quarterback Bryce Young to career bests in passing yards (3,011), touchdown passes (23) and passer rating (87.8), the third consecutive season the QB has increased in each category. Young also led the team to a career-high eight wins as a starter, with six coming after a game-winning drive, tied for the second-most game-winning drives in the NFL that season. Dropping back to pass 25 times on fourth down in 2025, the third most in the league, Young led the NFL with a 156.3 passer rating and tied for second in completion percentage (75%) among the 28 quarterbacks with at least 10 dropbacks on fourth down.

Under Bercovici's guidance in 2024, Young threw 21 touchdowns, while his 16 completions of 25+ yards to close the season marked the most in a 10-game stretch in his career. In six of the final nine games, Young led the Panthers on game-tying or game-winning drives.

In his first season with the Panthers (2023), Bercovici helped wide receiver 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 for the Cardinals (2022) and as a coaching assistant for the team (2020-21).

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 Pac-12 Football Scholar Athlete of the Year (2015) and the recipient of the Bill Kajikawa Award (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, Calif. 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.

Playing Career:

• 2011-15 | Arizona State
• 2016-17 | San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers (practice squad)
• 2017 | Arizona Cardinals (practice squad)
• 2019 | San Diego Fleet (AAF)

Coaching Career:

• 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
• 2026-Pres. | Carolina Panthers - Offensive Passing Game Coordinator