{"id":763784,"date":"2026-02-20T04:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/763784\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:15:19","slug":"chicago-bears-promote-jeff-king-to-assistant-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/763784\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears Promote Jeff King to Assistant General Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his 43rd birthday, Jeff King was promoted to Assistant General Manager of the Chicago Bears, a job one step below the Bears\u2019 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\u2019 secondary football decision-maker.<\/p>\n

In case you missed it, this was a whole thing for a few weeks.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Ryan Poles\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe congratulate Jeff on his elevation within our football operations department,\u201d Poles said via<\/a> the team\u2019s site. \u201cJeff 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\u2019s continued leadership and contributions as we work toward building a sustained winner.\u201d<\/p>\n

King, who had long been rumored to be Cunningham\u2019s replacement once he was hired away, will now get some experience as a number two, but if the Bears are a \u201csustained winner,\u201d he won\u2019t be in Chicago for long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On his 43rd birthday, Jeff King was promoted to Assistant General Manager of the Chicago Bears, a job…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,741,2493,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-763784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicago-bears-news","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116101023718440075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}