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Assistant General Manager Chris Shea enters his ninth season with the Kansas City Chiefs and his 27th in the NFL. Shea works closely with General Manager Brett Veach and Head Coach Andy Reid to provide input and support on all football operations matters including roster build strategy, roster decisions, staffing, and legal matters. He directly oversees the departments responsible for player personnel analytics, football administration, salary cap management, and football-related legal matters. Shea is the club's lead negotiator for player contracts and trades, serves as a senior evaluator of players, and manages the club's analytical, legal, neurological, and personality assessments of players. He works across the Chiefs organization to foster communication, alignment, and implementation of best practices.

Shea possesses leadership experience in all aspects of NFL roster building, managed a college football recruiting department, coached at the college and high school levels, and is an attorney. He has been employed by the NFL Management Council, six NFL clubs, two NCAA football programs, a high school football team, and a law firm specializing in labor and employment law. A seasoned college and pro talent evaluator with 25 years of NFL scouting experience, Shea spent 10 seasons as a pro/advance scout and has coordinated preparations for 13 drafts. He has 12 seasons of experience managing the salary cap for the league or teams. He has been involved with every contract negotiation, player transaction, and trade since arriving in Kansas City. Shea contributed to building four Super Bowl champion teams with two different organizations (Philadelphia 2017, Kansas City 2019, 2022 and 2023) and has helped build the rosters of teams who have competed in six of the last eight Super Bowls (Philadelphia 2017, Kansas City 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024). He has worked in organizations headed by Super Bowl winning leaders including general managers Bill Polian, Howie Roseman and Brett Veach as well as head coaches Tom Coughlin, Bill Parcells, Doug Peterson, and Andy Reid.

His roles with the Chiefs have blended player personnel, football administration, legal, and leadership responsibilities. Shea joined the Chiefs in May 2017. He previously served as the Senior Vice President of Football Operations and Strategy (2024), Vice President of Football Operations/Team Counsel in 2021 (2021-2023), Football Operations Counsel and Personnel Executive (2018-20), and Salary Cap and Legal Executive (2017). In 2025, he was selected to represent the Chiefs at the Stanford-NFL League of Leaders executive education program conducted by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Prior to joining the Chiefs, Shea spent the previous two seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles (2015-16), serving as the Director of Scouting Administration/Personnel Scout in 2016-May 2017 after initially joining the Eagles as Director of Scouting Administration/Strategic Management in May 2015. In Philadelphia, he helped develop the team's roster-building strategy, scouted pro and college players, scouted opponents, oversaw daily operations of the player personnel department, coordinated data research for player personnel, and managed development of the club's scouting-related technology. Shea coordinated all administrative aspects of the Eagles 2016 draft and contributed to building the 2017 Eagles roster that went on to win Super Bowl LII.

Shea spent seven seasons with the Miami Dolphins (2008-14), including his final four as Assistant Director of Pro Personnel. In that capacity, he served as the Dolphins primary advance scout, was a senior evaluator of all pro players and oversaw the daily operations of Miami's pro scouting department. He was promoted in May 2011 after previously serving as the Dolphins Player Personnel Administrator (2010-11) and Player Personnel Coordinator (2008-10). In those roles, he combined scouting, legal, salary cap management, information technology and analytics duties. From 2008-11, he coordinated all aspects of the Dolphins draft efforts.

During 2007-08, he was employed by the NFL Management Council. Initially, Shea served as a law clerk focusing on player grievances and litigation. Shea was later hired as the Coordinator of Labor Operations. In that capacity, he reviewed all player contracts to ensure compliance with league policies and the NFL CBA, advised club executives on player contract and salary cap issues and was a speaker at the NFL's annual Labor Seminar. He was also an Instant Replay Communicator for the NFL Officiating Department in 2007.

Shea was a scouting consultant with the Dallas Cowboys in 2005-06. From 2000-04, he was the New York Jets Pro Personnel Assistant. Shea broke into the NFL in 1995 as an operations/equipment intern for the Carolina Panthers.

Shea worked in college football from 1992-2000 spending time as the Football Recruiting Assistant at Boston College (1998-2000), the Assistant Offensive Line Coach for Harvard University (1997-98) and a Student Football Manager at Boston College (Head 1994-96, Varsity 1992-93). While at Harvard, Shea was part of the 1997 Ivy League Championship staff and coached four future NFL players including Pro Bowl center Matt Birk. The two recruiting classes Shea managed at Boston College were ranked in the Top 20 nationally and featured sixteen future NFL players of which six were drafted, including future All-Pro guard Chris Snee and Pro Bowl center Dan Koppen. Boston College participated in four bowl games during Shea's time at the school. In 1991, Shea was an assistant coach at Belmont High School (Mass.).

While an undergraduate, Shea took courses at Harvard University for credit toward his Boston College degree. As a law student, he was President of the Hofstra University Law School Sports and Entertainment Law Society.

Shea is licensed to practice law in New York and is a member of the New York and American Bar Associations. The Belmont, Mass., native has also been employed outside of the football industry as a law clerk at the New York law firm of Colleran, O'Hara and Mills, and as a Temporary Corrections Officer in Middlesex County (Mass.) Sheriff's Department.

Education: Hofstra University School of Law (J.D. 2007), Boston College (B.A. 1998). Family: Wife – Kirsten; Daughter – Caitlin.