Former 49ers chief of staff ‘DJ Kray’ no longer with Texans

Fans better know Kray as “DJ Kray.” He spent two seasons as head coach Kyle Shanahan’s chief of staff before departing for the Texans. He had previously spent four years as an administrative assistant with San Francisco.

Kray was regularly seen leading the 49ers out of the tunnel before games while carrying a massive boom box blasting music picked by wide receiver Deebo Samuel and tackle Trent Williams.

“It came about in 2019 when we played the Saints,” Samuel told FOX Sports in February. “Roddy Rich had dropped a song, ‘The Box,’ and we were vibing with that that year.

“So we start the season off with a song, and if we lose, we change the song. If we’re winning, the song stays the same until something bad happens.”

Samuel noted that the song that repeatedly played during the 49ers’ 12-game win streak this past season was NBA YoungBoys’ “Won’t Step on Me.”

The following was Kray’s bio from the 49ers team site before he left for the Texans.

Kray joined San Francisco after serving as the assistant director of football operations at North Carolina State University for two seasons (2015-16). Before his time at NC State, Kray was director of football operations and player development at Ball State University in 2014.

Kray has also spent time as director of football operations at Yale University (2012-13), as an offensive and special teams assistant at Villanova (2010-11), and as the defensive ends and defensive quality control coach at Eastern Illinois (2008-09).

A native of Glendale Heights, IL, Kray played collegiately as a defensive lineman at Eastern Illinois University, where he was a member of two Ohio Valley Conference championship squads and three Football Championship Subdivision playoff teams while serving as a team captain in 2006 and 2007. He has one son, Nicholas Alexander Kray, with Allie Meyer.