The Kansas City Chiefs have replaced Will Lewis with Packers exec Tim Terry as their new Director of Pro Personnel.
Earlier this week, the Kansas City Chiefs announced the termination of two employees, namely that they were moving on from two front office execs in Will Lewis, the Director of Pro Scouting, and Trip MacCracken, the Director of Football Administration. The Chiefs have now filled one of those holes with the hiring of Tim Terry away from the Green Bay Packers.
#Chiefs are hiring #Packers Assistant Director of Pro Personnel Tim Terry to be their new Director of Pro Personnel, source said. Key hire.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) May 18, 2017
Lewis had been with the Chiefs since 2013, when John Dorsey first arrived in K.C. from Green Bay himself, after a stint with the Seattle Seahawks. Terry will now take over in the primary directorial role after serving as the Packers’ assistant Director of Pro Personnel since 2008, a period of nine years studying next to Ted Thompson and learning the sack Packer way that has made Dorsey who he is.
The move should reap dividends in the front office by providing someone who already intimately knows many of Dorsey’s internal processes while also providing the front office with a bit of an outsider perspective, someone new with the team who hasn’t been in on all of the meetings of the last five years. Continuity is good as long as it continues to breed a winning culture, which it certainly has in K.C., but there’s something to be said for adding a trusted outside voice.