Buffalo Bills

2020

Penalty Counts

The Buffalo Bills have played 19 games. The Rank columns refer to overall league rank for that type of penalty. Offsetting and Declined penalties are listed in the "Dismissed" column, but are otherwise ignored.

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Name	Against	League Avg	League Avg-Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Home	Away	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	22	16.19	-5.81	104	17	76	0	11	11	26T	12T
Unnecessary Roughness	8	5.09	-2.91	120	6	79	3	3	5	27T	9T
Defensive Pass Interference	11	9.81	-1.19	176	8	170	1	4	7	22T	17T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	3	2.25	-0.75	45	1	4	0	3	0	25T	20T
Offensive Pass Interference	3	2	-1	30	2	20	1	1	2	21T	11T
Illegal Shift	2	0.72	-1.28	10	0	0	0	0	2	29T	17T
Offensive Holding	24	14.91	-9.09	231	9	80	4	9	15	31	28T
Roughing the Passer	6	3.97	-2.03	64	10	126	2	3	3	26T	1
Illegal Contact	1	1.84	0.84	5	4	19	0	0	1	5T	2T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	4	2.91	-1.09	40	6	54	2	2	2	22T	2T
Illegal Use of Hands	1	1.56	0.56	5	4	25	0	1	0	12T	2T
Intentional Grounding	1	1.41	0.41	16	1	23	0	0	1	9T	14T
Defensive Offside	3	4.75	1.75	16	8	40	5	2	1	11T	3T
Tripping	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0.22	0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	3	1	-2	45	0	0	1	3	0	29T	20T
Delay of Game	2	3.84	1.84	10	4	20	0	0	2	6T	11T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0.69	0.69	0	1	2	0	0	0	1T	5T
Encroachment	0	1.09	1.09	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	21T
Defensive Holding	3	5.53	2.53	10	4	18	1	2	1	6T	19T
Illegal Formation	3	1.53	-1.47	15	2	10	1	1	2	27T	7T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	1	0	0	1T	5T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Neutral Zone Infraction	9	5.13	-3.87	41	6	30	0	5	4	30	11T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0.06	0.06	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	1T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0.13	0.13	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Motion	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0	0.78	0.78	0	1	5	2	0	0	1T	9T
Illegal Crackback	0	0.22	0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Substitution	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Chop Block	0	0.22	0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Clipping	0	0.19	0.19	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Disqualification	0	0.5	0.5	0	1	2	0	0	0	1T	3T
Illegal Touch Kick	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Offensive Offside	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Taunting	0	0.31	0.31	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Illegal Blindside Block	1	0.47	-0.53	15	0	0	0	0	1	20T	15T
Illegal Wedge	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	0	1.03	1.03	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	10T
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	0	1.06	1.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	20T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0.25	0.25	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	9T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0	0.31	0.31	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0.31	0.31	0	1	12	0	0	0	1T	3T
Totals	110	93.43	-16.57	998	99	830	24	50	60

Penalty Counts - Per Game

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Name	Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	1.16	5.47	0.89	4	0	24	15
Unnecessary Roughness	0.42	6.32	0.32	4.16	0.16	24	13
Defensive Pass Interference	0.58	9.26	0.42	8.95	0.05	17	25
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0.16	2.37	0.05	0.21	0	25	27
Offensive Pass Interference	0.16	1.58	0.11	1.05	0.05	21T	19T
Illegal Shift	0.11	0.53	0	0	0	29	17T
Offensive Holding	1.26	12.16	0.47	4.21	0.21	31	30
Roughing the Passer	0.32	3.37	0.53	6.63	0.11	27T	2
Illegal Contact	0.05	0.26	0.21	1	0	5T	6
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0.21	2.11	0.32	2.84	0.11	23	3
Illegal Use of Hands	0.05	0.26	0.21	1.32	0	12	4
Intentional Grounding	0.05	0.84	0.05	1.21	0	9	28
Defensive Offside	0.16	0.84	0.42	2.11	0.26	11	7
Tripping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0.16	2.37	0	0	0.05	29	20T
Delay of Game	0.11	0.53	0.21	1.05	0	6	17
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0	0.05	0.11	0	1T	17
Encroachment	0	0	0	0	0	1T	21T
Defensive Holding	0.16	0.53	0.21	0.95	0.05	6	23
Illegal Formation	0.16	0.79	0.11	0.53	0.05	27	15T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0	0	0	0.05	1T	5T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Neutral Zone Infraction	0.47	2.16	0.32	1.58	0	29	13
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0	0.05	0.26	0	1T	2
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0	0.05	0.26	0	1T	4
Illegal Motion	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0	0	0.05	0.26	0.11	1T	15T
Illegal Crackback	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Substitution	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Chop Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Clipping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Disqualification	0	0	0.05	0.11	0	1T	12T
Illegal Touch Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Offensive Offside	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Taunting	0	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Illegal Blindside Block	0.05	0.79	0	0	0	20	15T
Illegal Wedge	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0	0.05	0.26	0	1T	19
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	0	0	0	0	0	1T	20T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0	0	0	0	1T	9T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0	0.05	0.63	0	1T	6
Totals	5.8	52.54	5.2	43.69	1.26