EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings on Tuesday announced the signing of running back Xazavian Valladay and offensive lineman Zack Bailey.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the team announced it has waived linebacker Max Tooley.<\/p>\n
Valladay first entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Texans in May 2023. After a stint with the Steelers, he joined the Jets that season. He logged 12 special teams snaps as he made his lone regular-season appearance so far in the final game of 2023.<\/p>\n
The Illinois native spent part of the 2024 season on the Saints practice squad and was with New Orleans this offseason until he was waived in June.<\/p>\n
Valladay played college football at Wyoming and Arizona State.<\/p>\n
In four seasons at Wyoming, Valladay totaled 3,281 years and 19 touchdowns on 626 carries. He added 584 yards and two scores through the air on 51 receptions.<\/p>\n
As a sophomore in 2019, he led the Mountain West with 247 rush attempts and 1,265 yards to garner First-Team All-Mountain West honors. He re-earned the designation the following season, which was limited to five games, before garnering second-team all-conference designations in 2021 (Mountain West) and 2022 (Pac-12).<\/p>\n
As a fifth-year senior at Arizona State, he topped the Pac-12 with 215 rush attempts, 16 touchdowns on the ground and 18 total touchdowns. He totaled 1,192 rushing yards and 289 receiving yards for the Sun Devils.<\/p>\n
Bailey is returning to the Vikings after spending part of the 2020 season on the practice squad, as well as the 2021 offseason with the team.<\/p>\n
The South Carolina product played in one game for the Chargers in 2022 and one game for the Jets in 2024. He was released by the Jets in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Vikings on Tuesday announced the signing of running back Xazavian Valladay and offensive lineman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,1025,2818,1219,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-301165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-news-index","10":"tag-news-press-release","11":"tag-news-team","12":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115056693079712229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}