On his 43rd birthday, Jeff King was promoted to Assistant General Manager of the Chicago Bears, a job one step below the Bears’ primary football decision-maker, General Manager Ryan Poles. He replaces Ian Cunningham, who left to become the General Manager of the Atlanta Falcons, which is the Falcons’ secondary football decision-maker.
In case you missed it, this was a whole thing for a few weeks.
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But back to King.
After playing tight end in the league from 2006 to 2013 with the Panthers and Cardinals, he joined the Bears as a scouting intern in 2015 as a part of Ryan Pace’s first scouting staff as GM in Chicago. King was a pro scout for the next three years, was promoted to Assistant Director of Pro Scouting in 2019, and was named Director of Pro Scouting in 2021.
In 2022, Ryan Poles’ first year in Chicago, he named King a Co-Director of Player Personnel, and in 2024, he was promoted to Senior Director of Player Personnel.
“We congratulate Jeff on his elevation within our football operations department,” Poles said via the team’s site. “Jeff has earned this promotion through his commitment to our team and his excellence within our operation, as well as the positive impact that he has created throughout our organization. We look forward to Jeff’s continued leadership and contributions as we work toward building a sustained winner.”
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King, who had long been rumored to be Cunningham’s replacement once he was hired away, will now get some experience as a number two, but if the Bears are a “sustained winner,” he won’t be in Chicago for long.
