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Chargers conclude interview with Jeff King for general manager opening

Jeff King was a former NFL tight end.

The Chargers on Friday confirmed they have interviewed Jeff King for their general manager position.

King finished his second season as the Bears’ co-director of player personnel, overseeing pro scouting and free agency.

King’s tenure with Chicago started as a scouting intern in 2015 before being promoted to pro scout in 2016 and then elevated to assistant director of pro scouting in 2019.

Before working for an NFL team, King played for a couple of NFL teams, as he was drafted by the Panthers in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL draft as a tight end out of Virginia Tech.

After a few seasons, King was signed by the Cardinals in 2011. He played in Arizona until 2013 when he hung up the cleats.

King finished his NFL career with 156 catches for 1,323 yards and 12 touchdowns in 108 games.

King was a multi-sport athlete at Virginia Tech, playing basketball and football.

Former Panthers TE completes interview for Chargers’ GM job

Former Panthers TE Jeff King completed an interview for the Chargers’ GM opening.

Big things may lie ahead for an ex-Carolina Panthers pass catcher.

As announced on Friday afternoon, former tight end Jeff King has completed an interview for the Los Angeles Chargers’ general manager position. He is now the eighth candidate to speak with the organization about their opening.

King, a Virginia Tech product, was selected in the fifth round of the 2006 draft by the Panthers. He’d go on to spend five of his seven NFL seasons in Carolina—amassing 112 receptions for 923 yards and nine touchdowns through the 2010 campaign.

After wrapping up his playing career with the Arizona Cardinals in 2013, King went behind the scenes as a scouting intern for the Chicago Bears beginning in 2015. He’d rise up the ranks there—picking up stints as a pro scout, the assistant director of pro scouting, the director of pro scouting and the co-director of player personnel.

The rising star also received some interest from the Panthers during their assistant general manager search in 2021.

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Bears co-director of player personnel Jeff King to interview for Chargers GM job

Bears co-director of player personnel Jeff King is drawing interest for the Chargers GM vacancy.

The Chicago Bears have a couple of front office staff who are drawing interest for general manager vacancies.

Bears co-director of player personnel Jeff King will interview for the Chargers GM vacancy, according to ESPN’s Lindsey Thiry.

King, a former NFL tight end, joined the Bears as a pro scout in 2016. He climbed the ladder within the organization, including promotions to assistant director of pro scouting (2019-20) and director of pro scouting (2021) and co-director of player personnel (2022-present). King was retained during the transition from Ryan Pace to Ryan Poles.

“When we jumped into free agent meetings, he stood out to me,” Poles told ChicagoBears.com of King last year. “He took control of that pro staff. He had an eye for talent. He was a very good communicator. He saw value in players. We kicked it off pretty quick, and he’s going to be valuable for this organization.”

King is the second member of Chicago’s front office to get an interview for a GM job. Assistant GM Ian Cunningham, who was a hot commodity last year, is interviewing with the Chargers and Washington Commanders.

Panthers now up to 4 candidates for assistant GM position

Panthers now interviewing 4 candidates for assistant GM opening

With five trades and 11 total picks made, the Carolina Panthers were arguably one of the busiest teams in the NFL this past week. And even with the draft now over, well, they’re still pretty busy.

According to a few nuggets dropped on Friday, the team’s search for their assistant general manager has now doubled, from two known candidates to four. Scroll on down to see who is now reportedly in the running to be Scott Fitterer’s right-hand man.

PGA Tour players, Kingmade Jerky helping to feed kids who might otherwise go hungry

A handful of PGA Tour players, alongside Kingmade Jerky, are helping to feed kids who might otherwise go hungry amid the global pandemic.

For kids who rely on their schools to provide free meals during the week, the coronavirus global pandemic has taken an immense toll on them and their families in quarantine.

That’s why Kingmade Jerky has partnered with Blessings in a Backpack, a national non-profit, to provide food for elementary school students across the country who might otherwise go hungry. Kingmade Jerky, which was founded by caddie Jeff King, has donated more than $100,000 of product that will be given to 5,000 children.

The Blessings programs has the support of the following 15 PGA Tour players, their spouses and affiliated organizations:

  • Jason and Ellie Day (Columbus, Ohio)
  • Brad and Dory Faxon (Providence, R.I.)
  • Jim and Tabitha Furyk (Jacksonville, Fla.)
  • Matt Wallace (Jacksonville, Fla.)
  • Jim and Carolyn Herman (Palm City, Fla.)
  • Charley and Stacey Hoffman (San Diego)
  • Justin and Amanda Leonard (Dallas)
  • Davis Love Foundation and the PGA TOUR Wives Association (St. Simons, Ga.)
  • Louis and Nel-Mare Oosthuizen (Palm Beach, Fla.)
  • Justin and Kate Rose (Orlando)
  • Charl and Rosalind Schwartzel (Palm Beach, Fla.)
  • The Zurich Classic Fore!Kids Foundation (New Orleans)
  • Steve Stricker (Palm Harbor, Fla.)
  • Mark and Amy Wilson (Chicago)

“When we started looking for ways that we can help families in crisis from the pandemic, this partnership with Blessings made perfect sense,” King said. “From day one, this brand has always been about the Tour players, and we are honored to support a worthy cause that means so much to them.”

Brooke Wiseman, CEO of Blessings in a Backpack, says there are 11 million food-insecure children in America. Her nonprofit has provided food in backpacks to kids who might otherwise go hungry on the weekends. During the 2018-2019 school year, Blessings in a Backpack provided 3 million hunger-free weekends for 87,000 kids in 45 states and Washington, D.C.

King created the jerky company after experimenting in his kitchen in Texas with a dehydrator to make the snack he craved during long drives from one Tour stop to another. At first, he had no idea his jerky would take off, becoming a favorite of professional golfers. In the spring of 2012, he took some jerky to an LPGA stop and sold 30 pounds at $40 a pop, just like that. When he went to the PGA Tour to carry for Luke List, the gathering spot on the driving range was wherever King was with the jerky.

“When I started, everybody was putting their two cents in on what flavors they wanted. ‘Hey, can you make me a black peppercorn one? Can you make me a hot one? Can you make this and that?’ And I was like, sure, let’s go all trippy and all, I’ll try it out,” King told USA TODAY in an interview in 2014. “I’d run home, try it out and bring it out to them, and they’d be like, ‘Dude, get me 2 pounds of that, that’s awesome.’

“I was coming home, my weeks off, just literally doing nothing but making beef jerky,” he said.

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