09/29/23: Drafted by Baltimore (6th round, 199th overall)
10/15/24: Released by Baltimore
10/17/24: Signed to Baltimore's PS
02/03/25: Signed a future 2025 contract with Seattle
• Spent two seasons in Baltimore, seeing action in two games in 2024 in a reserve role.
COLLEGE: Appeared in 35 games (29 starts), making 2,007 total snaps (1,823 at right tackel & 184 at right guard) over four years at Oregon (2019-22). Completed a two-year (2017-18) JUCO stint at Navarro (Corsicana, Texas) College prior to Oregon. Was a two-time Pac-12 All-Conference honorable mention (2020, 2022) and earned Pac-12 Offensive Lineman of the Week (Week 9, 2022) honors. Started all 13 games at right tackle for the Ducks in 2022, allowing just 14 total pressures in 442 pass-blocking opportunities, according to PFF, earning Pac-12 All-Conference honorable mention from league coaches. Was a key contributor on an Oregon offensive line that led the nation with only five sacks allowed and ranked 12th in TFL allowed (52). Oregon rushed for at least 100 yards in 12 of 13 games with seven games of 200-plus yards and three games of 300-plus yards.
PERSONAL: Prepped at Liberty (Henderson, Nev.) High, where he served as a starting right guard and right tackle from 2014-16, helping lead the Patriots to three straight Sunrise Region Titles and Nevada 5A State Championship appearances. Was a two-time (2015-16) second-team All-State selection, first-team All-Northwest League selection as a junior (2015) and first-team All-Southeast League selection as a senior (2016). Grew up in Palmer, Alaska, a farming town of less than 10,000 people around 40 miles northeast of Anchorage. His family moved to Las Vegas, Nev., in order for Malaesala to receive more recognition as a football standout. Trains with his uncle, Junior Aumavae, who played college football at Western Washington and later Minnesota State before signing with the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted defensive end in 2010 and playing on various NFL practice squads.
