Passing Penalties

2009

This page shows all passing penalties, based on the type of penalty.

Only passing plays are used.

Beneficiary means the team benefitted from the penalty. Declined and Offsetting penalties are not shown in this table.

The table below contains the following penalties: Defensive Pass Interference (190), Defensive Holding (104), Illegal Contact (92), and Roughing the Passer (69)

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Team	Defensive Plays	Total	Defensive Holding	Defensive Pass Interference	Illegal Contact	Roughing the Passer	Penalty Yards
Miami	532	0.034	0.009	0.015	0.008	0.002	0.361
Minnesota	653	0.015	0.005	0.006	0.000	0.005	0.175
Cleveland	566	0.034	0.007	0.014	0.004	0.009	0.359
Dallas	684	0.029	0.012	0.010	0.006	0.001	0.273
Carolina	526	0.027	0.002	0.013	0.006	0.006	0.247
Cincinnati	596	0.018	0.002	0.008	0.007	0.002	0.220
Arizona	713	0.020	0.004	0.010	0.003	0.003	0.261
Tennessee	634	0.016	0.000	0.008	0.000	0.008	0.227
San Francisco	624	0.022	0.011	0.008	0.003	0.000	0.151
San Diego	591	0.020	0.003	0.010	0.007	0.000	0.181
Baltimore	647	0.045	0.002	0.025	0.011	0.008	0.623
Pittsburgh	594	0.017	0.007	0.008	0.000	0.002	0.242
Washington	552	0.020	0.004	0.004	0.007	0.005	0.232
Atlanta	565	0.028	0.007	0.014	0.004	0.004	0.326
N.Y. Giants	531	0.026	0.011	0.013	0.000	0.002	0.307
Oakland	473	0.036	0.004	0.017	0.011	0.004	0.319
Indianapolis	724	0.011	0.003	0.004	0.001	0.003	0.099
Chicago	564	0.012	0.002	0.011	0.000	0.000	0.170
Denver	549	0.024	0.002	0.011	0.007	0.004	0.313
St. Louis	516	0.035	0.012	0.017	0.002	0.004	0.421
Green Bay	611	0.043	0.010	0.016	0.011	0.005	0.409
Philadelphia	661	0.027	0.002	0.011	0.011	0.005	0.331
Houston	576	0.036	0.014	0.014	0.003	0.005	0.392
Kansas City	532	0.013	0.002	0.008	0.004	0.000	0.128
Seattle	596	0.023	0.005	0.013	0.002	0.003	0.376
Detroit	571	0.019	0.004	0.005	0.004	0.007	0.201
New England	553	0.018	0.002	0.009	0.000	0.007	0.347
Tampa Bay	510	0.022	0.012	0.006	0.004	0.000	0.122
New Orleans	738	0.018	0.004	0.004	0.004	0.005	0.215
Buffalo	552	0.020	0.004	0.005	0.007	0.004	0.261
N.Y. Jets	655	0.029	0.009	0.006	0.014	0.000	0.227
Jacksonville	524	0.017	0.004	0.000	0.008	0.006	0.134