Buffalo Bills

2023

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	14	20	6	67	28	134	0	6	8	5T	4T
Unnecessary Roughness	10	5.41	-4.59	131	8	120	3	9	1	30T	4T
Defensive Pass Interference	11	8.69	-2.31	128	3	85	1	8	3	22T	32
Offensive Pass Interference	3	2.28	-0.72	30	1	10	0	1	2	19T	22T
Illegal Shift	2	1.16	-0.84	10	3	15	0	1	1	23T	1T
Offensive Holding	24	18.06	-5.94	229	18	169	7	12	12	29	15T
Roughing the Passer	4	3.09	-0.91	46	6	72	0	3	1	20T	1
Illegal Contact	4	2.81	-1.19	20	3	15	1	2	2	26T	9T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0	1.09	1.09	0	1	8	1	0	0	1T	12T
Illegal Use of Hands	2	1.88	-0.12	7	2	10	1	1	1	13T	11T
Intentional Grounding	2	1.88	-0.12	22	0	0	0	0	2	14T	26T
Defensive Offside	7	4.78	-2.22	35	2	6	2	4	3	25T	24T
Tripping	2	0.28	-1.72	30	0	0	0	0	2	31T	10T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0.13	0.13	0	1	15	0	0	0	1T	1T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0	0.78	0.78	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	19T
Delay of Game	6	5.09	-0.91	30	6	29	0	4	2	20T	9T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0.47	0.47	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	15T
Encroachment	4	1.28	-2.72	16	0	0	0	1	3	29T	22T
Defensive Holding	7	5.81	-1.19	35	7	35	1	2	5	21T	9T
Illegal Formation	1	1.84	0.84	5	2	10	0	1	0	6T	9T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0.09	0.09	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0.19	0.19	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Neutral Zone Infraction	1	3.06	2.06	5	3	15	0	1	0	1T	11T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0.22	0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0.25	0.25	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	9T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Illegal Motion	1	0.22	-0.78	5	0	0	0	1	0	27T	7T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	1	1.53	0.53	5	7	35	0	0	1	6T	1
Illegal Crackback	0	0.09	0.09	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Illegal Substitution	0	0.09	0.09	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	1T
Chop Block	0	0.19	0.19	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Clipping	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Fair Catch Interference	0	0.38	0.38	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	13T
Leverage	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0.16	0.16	0	1	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Low Block	0	0.19	0.19	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Disqualification	0	0.38	0.38	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Illegal Touch Kick	0	0.22	0.22	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	1T
Offensive Offside	1	0.66	-0.34	4	1	5	0	0	1	17T	5T
Taunting	2	0.47	-1.53	30	0	0	0	0	2	31T	15T
Leaping	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Illegal Bat	1	0.09	-0.91	10	0	0	0	1	0	30T	4T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0.47	0.47	0	1	15	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Peelback	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	1	1.03	0.03	5	1	5	0	1	0	13T	11T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0.34	0.34	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0.09	0.09	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0	0.25	0.25	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Face Mask	2	2.88	0.88	30	0	0	0	1	1	8T	31T
Illegal Kick/Kicking Loose Ball	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Lowering the Head to Make Forcible Contact	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Totals	113	101.01	-11.99	935	107	818	17	60	53

Penalty Counts - Per Game

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Name	Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	0.74	3.53	1.47	7.05	0	4	6
Unnecessary Roughness	0.53	6.89	0.42	6.32	0.16	29T	6
Defensive Pass Interference	0.58	6.74	0.16	4.47	0.05	23	32
Offensive Pass Interference	0.16	1.58	0.05	0.53	0	19T	28T
Illegal Shift	0.11	0.53	0.16	0.79	0	23T	3
Offensive Holding	1.26	12.05	0.95	8.89	0.37	26	22
Roughing the Passer	0.21	2.42	0.32	3.79	0	20	1
Illegal Contact	0.21	1.05	0.16	0.79	0.05	26	14T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0	0	0.05	0.42	0.05	1T	21
Illegal Use of Hands	0.11	0.37	0.11	0.53	0.05	15T	13T
Intentional Grounding	0.11	1.16	0	0	0	16	26T
Defensive Offside	0.37	1.84	0.11	0.32	0.11	25T	29
Tripping	0.11	1.58	0	0	0	32	10T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0	0.05	0.79	0	1T	4
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0	0	0	0	0	1T	19T
Delay of Game	0.32	1.58	0.32	1.53	0	21	10T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0	0	0	0	1T	15T
Encroachment	0.21	0.84	0	0	0	29	22T
Defensive Holding	0.37	1.84	0.37	1.84	0.05	21	11T
Illegal Formation	0.05	0.26	0.11	0.53	0	6T	19T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Neutral Zone Infraction	0.05	0.26	0.16	0.79	0	2T	17T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	9T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Illegal Motion	0.05	0.26	0	0	0	28T	7T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0.05	0.26	0.37	1.84	0	7T	1
Illegal Crackback	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Illegal Substitution	0	0	0.05	0.26	0	1T	3
Chop Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Clipping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Fair Catch Interference	0	0	0	0	0	1T	13T
Leverage	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0	0.05	0	0	1T	3T
Low Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Disqualification	0	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Illegal Touch Kick	0	0	0.05	0.26	0	1T	5
Offensive Offside	0.05	0.21	0.05	0.26	0	18	14T
Taunting	0.11	1.58	0	0	0	31	15T
Leaping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Illegal Bat	0.05	0.53	0	0	0	30T	4T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0	0.05	0.79	0	1T	13
Illegal Peelback	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	0.05	0.26	0.05	0.26	0	14	17T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Face Mask	0.11	1.58	0	0	0	8	31T
Illegal Kick/Kicking Loose Ball	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Lowering the Head to Make Forcible Contact	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Totals	5.97	49.2	5.64	43.05	0.89