NFL's Austin Seferian-Jenkins Arrested on DUI Charges in Washington

Free-agent NFL tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins was arrested Monday and charged with DUI in Gig Harbor, Washington, the city where he played high school football.

TMZ Sports reported the news Saturday and noted Seferian-Jenkins also faces counts of driving with a suspended license and operating a vehicle without an ignition interlock device.

It's the third DUI arrest for the 27-year-old University of Washington product.

In 2013, Seferian-Jenkins was sentenced to one day in jail after pleading guilty to a drunken driving charge before his final season of college football with the Huskies.

He was also arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor DUI in 2016.

Seferian-Jenkins told ESPN's Rich Cimini in 2017 he'd attended an outpatient rehab program because of his use of alcohol to deal with "dormant issues":

"It's not like I was dependent on it; I was dependent on self-medicating myself so I could deal with s---. Once I figured out what was going on, I got help. I went to the doctor and figured everything out. I've been straight. It's not like I'm f-----g dying. It's not like I craved it, wake up in the morning and I need a drink. It was just like, I'm having a tough time, I'm dealing with something, it's 6:30 p.m. and let's crack one back."

Seferian-Jenkins was most recently a member of the New England Patriots. The Pats signed him last April but released him in June. He didn't play for any team during the 2019 NFL season.

He previously spent time with the Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Jets and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who selected him in the second round of the 2014 draft.