Buffalo Bills

2021

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	18	18.75	0.75	89	20	99	0	9	9	16T	11T
Unnecessary Roughness	8	5.38	-2.62	120	11	118	2	2	6	25T	1T
Defensive Pass Interference	9	9.63	0.63	144	8	88	2	4	5	11T	23
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0	2.31	2.31	0	5	75	0	0	0	1T	2T
Offensive Pass Interference	2	2.5	0.5	20	3	30	1	1	1	6T	9T
Illegal Shift	2	0.81	-1.19	10	1	5	0	1	1	26T	5T
Offensive Holding	23	21.13	-1.87	226	23	223	7	13	10	21T	10T
Roughing the Passer	8	4.81	-3.19	106	3	34	1	4	4	30T	24T
Illegal Contact	2	0.88	-1.12	10	1	5	0	2	0	26T	9T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	2	2.22	0.22	20	1	10	0	2	0	9T	23T
Illegal Use of Hands	4	2.34	-1.66	25	2	10	0	1	3	25T	11T
Intentional Grounding	2	0.94	-1.06	33	1	10	0	1	1	24T	9T
Defensive Offside	6	4.97	-1.03	29	6	30	3	3	3	20T	10T
Tripping	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0.31	0.31	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	10T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0	1.31	1.31	0	2	27	0	0	0	1T	4T
Delay of Game	3	5.38	2.38	15	6	29	0	1	2	3T	10T
Horse Collar Tackle	1	0.47	-0.53	15	1	7	0	1	0	21T	4T
Encroachment	0	1.16	1.16	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	11T
Defensive Holding	13	5.16	-7.84	65	1	5	6	3	10	32	32
Illegal Formation	0	2.13	2.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	27T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0.22	0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Offside on Free Kick	1	0.13	-0.87	5	0	0	0	1	0	29T	5T
Neutral Zone Infraction	3	3.63	0.63	15	3	14	0	1	2	9T	17T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	1	0.16	-0.84	5	0	0	0	1	0	29T	6T
Running Into the Kicker	1	0.16	-0.84	5	0	0	0	0	1	28T	5T
Illegal Motion	0	0.22	0.22	0	1	5	1	0	0	1T	1T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	4	1.44	-2.56	20	1	5	0	2	2	28T	14T
Illegal Crackback	0	0.09	0.09	0	0	0	1	0	0	1T	4T
Illegal Substitution	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Chop Block	0	0.19	0.19	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Clipping	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Fair Catch Interference	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Leverage	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0.31	0.31	0	3	15	0	0	0	1T	1
Low Block	2	0.44	-1.56	30	0	0	0	2	0	30T	13T
Disqualification	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Illegal Touch Kick	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Offensive Offside	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Taunting	3	1.34	-1.66	30	2	30	0	1	2	27T	5T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0.38	0.38	0	0	0	2	0	0	1T	11T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	0	1.13	1.13	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	11T
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0.31	0.31	0	1	4	0	0	0	1T	1T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0.09	0.09	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	1	0.19	-0.81	5	0	0	1	1	0	27T	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0.31	0.31	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	9T
Totals	119	104.41	-14.59	1042	108	888	27	57	62

Penalty Counts - Per Game

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Name	Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	0.95	4.68	1.05	5.21	0	13	16
Unnecessary Roughness	0.42	6.32	0.58	6.21	0.11	25	3
Defensive Pass Interference	0.47	7.58	0.42	4.63	0.11	11	23
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0	0	0.26	3.95	0	1T	3
Offensive Pass Interference	0.11	1.05	0.16	1.58	0.05	9	11
Illegal Shift	0.11	0.53	0.05	0.26	0	27	16T
Offensive Holding	1.21	11.89	1.21	11.74	0.37	18	15
Roughing the Passer	0.42	5.58	0.16	1.79	0.05	30	26
Illegal Contact	0.11	0.53	0.05	0.26	0	27	15
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0.11	1.05	0.05	0.53	0	11T	27
Illegal Use of Hands	0.21	1.32	0.11	0.53	0	26	20T
Intentional Grounding	0.11	1.74	0.05	0.53	0	25	19T
Defensive Offside	0.32	1.53	0.32	1.58	0.16	20	11
Tripping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0	0	0	0	1T	10T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0	0	0.11	1.42	0	1T	10
Delay of Game	0.16	0.79	0.32	1.53	0	3T	16
Horse Collar Tackle	0.05	0.79	0.05	0.37	0	22T	12
Encroachment	0	0	0.05	0.26	0	1T	19T
Defensive Holding	0.68	3.42	0.05	0.26	0.32	31	32
Illegal Formation	0	0	0	0	0	1T	27T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Offside on Free Kick	0.05	0.26	0	0	0	30	5T
Neutral Zone Infraction	0.16	0.79	0.16	0.74	0	12	21
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0.05	0.26	0	0	0	29	6T
Running Into the Kicker	0.05	0.26	0	0	0	28	5T
Illegal Motion	0	0	0.05	0.26	0.05	1T	7
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0.21	1.05	0.05	0.26	0	28	19
Illegal Crackback	0	0	0	0	0.05	1T	4T
Illegal Substitution	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Chop Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Clipping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Fair Catch Interference	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Leverage	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0	0.16	0.79	0	1T	1
Low Block	0.11	1.58	0	0	0	30	13T
Disqualification	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Illegal Touch Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Offensive Offside	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Taunting	0.16	1.58	0.11	1.58	0	28T	12T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0	0	0	0.11	1T	11T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0	0.05	0.26	0	1T	17
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0	0.05	0.21	0	1T	8
Kick Catch Interference	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0.05	0.26	0	0	0.05	27	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	9T
Totals	6.28	54.84	5.68	46.74	1.43