The Chicago Bears are taking another piece of the Tar Heel State up north.
As first reported by NFL Network reporter Bridget Condon on Tuesday, the Bears are set to hire Jennifer King as an offensive assistant. King, who previously spent two seasons as an intern for the Carolina Panthers, is expected to work with Chicago’s running backs.
An Eden, N.C. native, King got her NFL start with the hometown Panthers in 2018. After meeting then-head coach Ron Rivera at the league’s Women’s Forum, she was brought on as a wide receivers coach intern.
King would then get her first full-time job in pro football with the AAF’s Arizona Hotshots as an assistant wide receivers and special teams coach later that year. But after the league ceased due to bankruptcy, she returned to the Panthers as a running backs coach intern in 2019.
She’s since picked up stints as an offensive assistant at Dartmouth College in 2019 and as a coaching intern and assistant running backs coach for Rivera’s Washington Commanders between 2020 and 2023.
