Detroit Lions

2016

Penalty Counts

The Detroit Lions have played 17 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	18.81	0.81	85	20	100	0	7	11	14T	10T
Unnecessary Roughness	7	6.34	-0.66	88	3	30	0	2	5	20	29T
Defensive Pass Interference	10	9.03	-0.97	202	13	162	3	5	5	22T	3T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0	3.19	3.19	0	2	30	2	0	0	1T	21T
Offensive Pass Interference	3	2.88	-0.12	30	3	30	0	3	0	16T	12T
Illegal Shift	2	1.06	-0.94	10	1	5	0	1	1	23T	11T
Offensive Holding	24	22.5	-1.5	226	23	218	5	11	13	20T	15
Roughing the Passer	2	2.78	0.78	30	2	25	0	0	2	10T	17T
Illegal Contact	0	1.5	1.5	0	1	5	1	0	0	1T	14T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	4	3.84	-0.16	40	8	76	0	1	3	15T	1
Illegal Use of Hands	3	2.84	-0.16	20	7	40	1	2	1	15T	1
Intentional Grounding	1	0.88	-0.12	10	1	20	0	1	0	14T	7T
Defensive Offside	7	5.41	-1.59	35	8	40	2	6	1	24T	4T
Tripping	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Roughing the Kicker	1	0.38	-0.62	15	1	15	0	0	1	21T	3T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	1	2.41	1.41	13	2	30	0	1	0	5T	16T
Delay of Game	4	4.44	0.44	19	8	40	0	2	2	12T	3T
Defensive 12 On-field	3	1.47	-1.53	10	1	5	1	2	1	27T	11T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0.63	0.63	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	14T
Encroachment	1	1.53	0.53	1	1	5	0	0	1	10T	15T
Defensive Holding	9	6.75	-2.25	40	7	31	5	7	2	26T	10T
Illegally Kicking Ball	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Formation	0	2.13	2.13	0	4	20	0	0	0	1T	3T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Offside on Free Kick	1	0.72	-0.28	5	1	5	0	0	1	15T	7T
Neutral Zone Infraction	2	3.69	1.69	10	3	15	0	0	2	7T	13T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0.09	0.09	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0.25	0.25	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Illegal Motion	0	0.34	0.34	0	1	2	0	0	0	1T	3T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0	0.63	0.63	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	3T
Illegal Crackback	0	0.06	0.06	0	1	15	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Substitution	0	0.19	0.19	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Offensive 12 On-field	0	0.22	0.22	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	2T
Chop Block	0	0.28	0.28	0	2	30	0	0	0	1T	1
Clipping	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Fair Catch Interference	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Leverage	0	0.38	0.38	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	10T
Player Out of Bounds on Punt	0	0.19	0.19	0	1	15	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Forward Pass	1	0.16	-0.84	5	1	0	0	0	1	28T	1T
Low Block	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Interference with Opportunity to Catch	0	0.25	0.25	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Invalid Fair Catch Signal	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Disqualification	0	0.25	0.25	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Illegal Touch Kick	1	0.25	-0.75	5	0	0	0	0	1	26T	9T
Offensive Offside	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Taunting	1	0.88	-0.12	15	0	0	0	0	1	15T	18T
Leaping	1	0.09	-0.91	15	0	0	0	0	1	30T	3T
Illegal Bat	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Kickoff Out of Bounds	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Delay of Kickoff	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Totals	107	110.77	3.77	929	128	1019	20	51	56

Penalty Counts - Per Game

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Name	Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	1.06	5	1.18	5.88	0	14	14T
Unnecessary Roughness	0.41	5.18	0.18	1.76	0	20	31
Defensive Pass Interference	0.59	11.88	0.76	9.53	0.18	23T	3
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0	0	0.12	1.76	0.12	1T	25T
Offensive Pass Interference	0.18	1.76	0.18	1.76	0	18	17T
Illegal Shift	0.12	0.59	0.06	0.29	0	25T	14T
Offensive Holding	1.41	13.29	1.35	12.82	0.29	20	16
Roughing the Passer	0.12	1.76	0.12	1.47	0	10	21T
Illegal Contact	0	0	0.06	0.29	0.06	1T	21T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0.24	2.35	0.47	4.47	0	15T	1
Illegal Use of Hands	0.18	1.18	0.41	2.35	0.06	16T	1
Intentional Grounding	0.06	0.59	0.06	1.18	0	18T	18T
Defensive Offside	0.41	2.06	0.47	2.35	0.12	24T	7
Tripping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Roughing the Kicker	0.06	0.88	0.06	0.88	0	23T	9T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0.06	0.76	0.12	1.76	0	6	19T
Delay of Game	0.24	1.12	0.47	2.35	0	13T	3T
Defensive 12 On-field	0.18	0.59	0.06	0.29	0.06	29	17T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0	0	0	0	1T	14T
Encroachment	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.29	0	11	20T
Defensive Holding	0.53	2.35	0.41	1.82	0.29	26	13
Illegally Kicking Ball	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Formation	0	0	0.24	1.18	0	1T	4
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Offside on Free Kick	0.06	0.29	0.06	0.29	0	19	15T
Neutral Zone Infraction	0.12	0.59	0.18	0.88	0	9	17T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Illegal Motion	0	0	0.06	0.12	0	1T	5T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0	0	0.06	0.29	0	1T	12T
Illegal Crackback	0	0	0.06	0.88	0	1T	1T
Illegal Substitution	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Offensive 12 On-field	0	0	0.06	0.29	0	1T	4T
Chop Block	0	0	0.12	1.76	0	1T	1
Clipping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Fair Catch Interference	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Leverage	0	0	0	0	0	1T	10T
Player Out of Bounds on Punt	0	0	0.06	0.88	0	1T	4T
Illegal Forward Pass	0.06	0.29	0.06	0	0	29T	3
Low Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Interference with Opportunity to Catch	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Invalid Fair Catch Signal	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Disqualification	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Illegal Touch Kick	0.06	0.29	0	0	0	28	9T
Offensive Offside	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Taunting	0.06	0.88	0	0	0	17T	18T
Leaping	0.06	0.88	0	0	0	31	3T
Illegal Bat	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Kickoff Out of Bounds	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Delay of Kickoff	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Totals	6.33	54.62	7.56	59.87	1.18