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Chris Shea enters his eighth season with the Kansas City Chiefs and first season as Senior Vice President of Football Operations and Strategy. He previously served as the club's Vice President of Football Operations/Team Counsel (2021-23), Football Operations Counsel and Personnel Executive (2018-20), and originally joined the Chiefs as the Salary Cap and Legal Executive (2017). Since joining the Chiefs, Shea has served in a multi-faceted role as a salary cap executive, legal counsel, and scouting evaluator. He has been significantly involved in all roster decisions, trades and player contact negotiations, including those for QB Patrick Mahomes, DT Chris Jones and TE Travis Kelce.

In his new role, Shea supports Head Coach Andy Reid and General Manager Brett Veach in all aspects of the club's football operation, including development and implementation of the team's roster building and resource allocation strategies. He directly oversees the departments responsible for the organization's football administration and roster related analytics efforts. Shea is the club's lead negotiator for player contracts and trades, oversees management of the club's salary cap and player contracts, and is the team's primary liaison to the NFL for player personnel, league policy, and collective bargaining related matters. He provides scouting evaluations of top college and NFL talent and plays a significant role in the club's preparations for the NFL draft and veteran free agency. Shea also works closely with senior leadership to help manage football staff budgets and employment agreements.

Entering his 26th season in the NFL, Shea has diverse leadership experience in all aspects of football operations, including coaching, scouting, salary cap management, labor law, NFL legal matters, analytics, and instant replay officiating. In addition to being an attorney, Shea is a seasoned college and pro talent evaluator with 20 years of scouting experience, including 10 seasons as a full-time pro/advance scout. He has 13 seasons of experience managing the salary cap for the league or teams. He contributed to building 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 five of the last seven Super Bowls (Philadelphia 2017, Kansas City 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023). He has worked for 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. Shea has worked under several Super Bowl winning head coaches (Tom Coughlin, Bill Parcells, Doug Pederson, and Andy Reid) and front office executives (including Terry Bradway, Dick Haley, Bill Polian, Howie Roseman, and Brett Veach).

Prior to joining the Chiefs, Shea spent the previous three seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles (2015-17), 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, advance 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, performed year-round analysis of the other NFL rosters, 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 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, he coached four future NFL players including Pro Bowl center Matt Birk. In 1991, Shea was an assistant coach at Belmont High School (Mass.).

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.