The Seahawks have the need at tight end.

Jimmy Graham is too expensive to bring back at age 31 following a 10-touchdown season for Seattle in 2017. He will become a free agent on Wednesday. The Seahawks are also weighing whether to make an offer to Luke Willson. Their incumbent No.-2 tight end is also due to become a free agent when the market opens Wednesday. Seattle could retain him at a much more team-friendly cost and still have money to spend on its many other needs (pass rusher, offensive line, running back) in free agency.

Nick Vannett, who has played two seasons since the Seahawks drafted him in 2016 out of Ohio State, is the only tight end on the depth chart who is signed for 2018.

The Seahawks entered Monday with about $30 million in salary-cap space following last week’s big moves of trading Michael Bennett and waiving Richard Sherman and Jeremy Lane.

Seferian-Jenkins caught a career-high 50 passes last season for the Jets, fewer than his total from his first four NFL seasons before that combined. He was suspended for the first two games of the 2017 season for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy in 2016. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers drafted him in the second round in 2014 out of UW, then gave up on him and waived him two years later, two games into the 2016 season, after he was arrested for driving under the influence.

In 2013 he pleaded guilty to DUI while playing for the Washington Huskies. The News Tribune