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Tim Terry enters his eighth season with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2024 and his third as the club's Director of Player Personnel/Pro Scouting.

In his current capacity, Terry oversees the team's pro department, prioritizing the advance scouting efforts for upcoming Chiefs opponents and scouting efforts of collegiate and professional prospects. Terry works closely with the entire pro department to coordinate the identification of free agents throughout the year, with his primary scouting focus being the AFC West.

In 2023 and 2022, Terry was voted by his peers to the BART List, named after former Rams scout Danton Barto, for Pro Scout of the Year at the Inside the League Draft Awards. Terry also earned his League of Leaders certificate from the Stanford School of Business in 2023. He has been an Ozzie Newsome General Manager Forum presenter and participant. While in Kansas City, Terry has been a part of the NFL Accelerator program twice (2021 and 2023).

Prior to his current position, he spent one year as the club's Senior Director of Pro Personnel (2021) and four seasons as the Director of Pro Personnel (2017-20), where his primary duties included scouting professional prospects in the NFL, CFL, XFL, USFL and Arena Football League. He was also involved with in-season advance scouting of upcoming Chiefs opponents.

Prior to his arrival in Kansas City, Terry spent 13 seasons in the Packers pro personnel department, most recently serving as Green Bay's Assistant Director of Pro Personnel.

In 2008, Terry was named Assistant Director of Pro Personnel after serving as a pro personnel assistant the previous three years. During his time as Assistant Director of Pro Personnel, he helped assemble the Packers teams that went on to win seven NFC North Division Titles, an NFC Conference Championship and Super Bowl XLV. In his role with the Packers, Terry focused on identifying free agents to add to the roster and advance scouting of opponents. During the 2007 season, he continued to work in the personnel department while also serving as the director of player development.

Terry originally entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent out of Temple with the Cincinnati Bengals in 1997. As a rookie, he saw action in five games, logging three stops and five special teams tackles. Terry spent the 1998 season on the team's practice squad.

In 1999, he went to camp with the Kansas City Chiefs, but was released and subsequently signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL, helping that club to a Grey Cup championship.

Terry then joined the Seattle Seahawks practice squad in early 2000 before being signed to the active roster, playing in six games, collecting two special teams stops and forcing a fumble on a kickoff return.

Terry saw action in all 16 games for Seattle each of the following two seasons (2001-02), with his best professional campaign coming in 2002. That year, Terry posted a career-high 42 tackles, including 1.0 sack, one pass defensed, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. His NFL career included 43 games played (eight starts), 55 tackles, 3.5 sacks and 19 special teams stops.

At Temple, Terry played in all 44 games (43 starts) as a defensive lineman during his four seasons and finished his career with 208 tackles. Terry graduated with a degree in political science and a minor in African-American studies. He obtained his master's degree in management at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in the winter of 2011. Terry was also a recipient of The Network Journal's 40 Under Forty achievement award in 2012. Terry has been a prominent leader in each community he has worked, staying active in Big Brothers Big Sisters of America while he was in Green Bay and working with Journey House in Milwaukee. Terry also served as a chaplain for the Brown County Jail (Wisc.).

An all-state selection at Hempstead (N.Y.) High School, he also lettered in track, basketball and lacrosse.

Education: Temple (B.S. 1997), University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (M.S. 2011). Family: Wife - Andrea; Children - Zoe, Timothy II, Jayden, Tyson and Reese.