Passing Penalties

2015

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 (243), Defensive Holding (219), Roughing the Passer (102), and Illegal Contact (62)

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Team	Defensive Plays	Total	Defensive Holding	Defensive Pass Interference	Illegal Contact	Roughing the Passer	Penalty Yards
Pittsburgh	754	0.023	0.009	0.009	0.003	0.001	0.284
New England	731	0.031	0.011	0.016	0.004	0.000	0.341
Chicago	548	0.027	0.004	0.011	0.005	0.007	0.454
Miami	573	0.042	0.012	0.012	0.003	0.014	0.504
Washington	641	0.020	0.000	0.011	0.006	0.003	0.201
Kansas City	733	0.034	0.010	0.012	0.004	0.008	0.383
New Orleans	574	0.059	0.031	0.014	0.003	0.010	0.554
Denver	772	0.041	0.014	0.016	0.004	0.008	0.525
Tampa Bay	580	0.028	0.009	0.012	0.000	0.007	0.276
N.Y. Giants	661	0.027	0.009	0.009	0.002	0.008	0.284
Philadelphia	670	0.027	0.010	0.010	0.004	0.001	0.270
Buffalo	624	0.030	0.010	0.018	0.000	0.003	0.325
Atlanta	580	0.029	0.005	0.017	0.000	0.007	0.453
Arizona	682	0.026	0.012	0.004	0.003	0.007	0.305
Minnesota	632	0.040	0.014	0.014	0.005	0.006	0.489
Baltimore	582	0.046	0.014	0.026	0.002	0.005	0.588
Oakland	679	0.047	0.018	0.022	0.006	0.001	0.471
Dallas	537	0.035	0.019	0.011	0.006	0.000	0.304
Seattle	636	0.027	0.006	0.011	0.005	0.005	0.363
N.Y. Jets	639	0.022	0.009	0.009	0.002	0.002	0.268
San Diego	543	0.024	0.009	0.011	0.002	0.002	0.234
St. Louis	638	0.028	0.008	0.011	0.002	0.008	0.334
Jacksonville	638	0.041	0.016	0.016	0.000	0.009	0.455
Indianapolis	620	0.040	0.013	0.016	0.003	0.008	0.426
Cleveland	540	0.031	0.013	0.017	0.002	0.000	0.530
Houston	622	0.034	0.011	0.005	0.005	0.013	0.400
Green Bay	690	0.017	0.009	0.006	0.001	0.001	0.223
San Francisco	577	0.023	0.005	0.012	0.003	0.002	0.107
Detroit	571	0.030	0.011	0.014	0.002	0.004	0.349
Carolina	819	0.018	0.010	0.005	0.001	0.002	0.190
Cincinnati	728	0.021	0.007	0.005	0.005	0.003	0.170
Tennessee	542	0.020	0.009	0.002	0.004	0.006	0.140