Passing Penalties

2020

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 (314), Defensive Holding (175), Roughing the Passer (127), and Illegal Contact (59)

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Team	Defensive Plays	Total	Defensive Holding	Defensive Pass Interference	Illegal Contact	Roughing the Passer	Penalty Yards
Houston	575	0.028	0.005	0.016	0.005	0.002	0.277
Atlanta	654	0.035	0.006	0.020	0.002	0.008	0.362
Seattle	748	0.019	0.003	0.008	0.004	0.004	0.175
N.Y. Jets	635	0.055	0.013	0.016	0.005	0.022	0.660
Buffalo	737	0.028	0.004	0.015	0.001	0.008	0.346
New England	517	0.029	0.012	0.014	0.004	0.000	0.340
Baltimore	700	0.041	0.006	0.020	0.003	0.013	0.586
Chicago	622	0.042	0.006	0.021	0.006	0.008	0.471
Jacksonville	551	0.058	0.015	0.033	0.002	0.009	0.846
Indianapolis	639	0.030	0.006	0.016	0.005	0.003	0.423
New Orleans	666	0.060	0.015	0.029	0.005	0.012	0.751
Tampa Bay	850	0.024	0.007	0.009	0.000	0.007	0.292
San Francisco	567	0.044	0.018	0.014	0.002	0.011	0.443
Arizona	618	0.044	0.015	0.023	0.005	0.002	0.447
Carolina	613	0.041	0.018	0.011	0.003	0.008	0.367
Las Vegas	626	0.043	0.014	0.021	0.000	0.008	0.454
LA Rams	669	0.018	0.000	0.015	0.001	0.001	0.291
Pittsburgh	617	0.028	0.003	0.015	0.003	0.006	0.314
Denver	658	0.018	0.002	0.008	0.005	0.005	0.229
Dallas	545	0.048	0.015	0.018	0.006	0.009	0.525
Miami	586	0.038	0.009	0.012	0.009	0.009	0.404
Philadelphia	578	0.028	0.005	0.019	0.002	0.002	0.379
Cincinnati	558	0.027	0.005	0.018	0.002	0.002	0.292
Detroit	581	0.041	0.015	0.019	0.000	0.007	0.478
Minnesota	563	0.023	0.007	0.011	0.005	0.000	0.206
Kansas City	708	0.048	0.014	0.024	0.001	0.008	0.532
Washington	618	0.023	0.006	0.010	0.000	0.006	0.275
Tennessee	677	0.025	0.004	0.015	0.001	0.004	0.300
Green Bay	645	0.031	0.017	0.011	0.002	0.002	0.256
N.Y. Giants	614	0.026	0.010	0.008	0.003	0.005	0.246
Cleveland	729	0.012	0.005	0.005	0.001	0.000	0.147
LA Chargers	570	0.025	0.002	0.011	0.004	0.009	0.311