Detroit Lions

2020

Penalty Counts

The Detroit Lions have played 16 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	16	16.19	0.19	79	14	70	0	8	8	16T	20T
Unnecessary Roughness	6	5.09	-0.91	80	2	30	0	1	5	19T	29T
Defensive Pass Interference	11	9.81	-1.19	196	9	152	0	6	5	22T	12T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	2	2.25	0.25	27	0	0	0	2	0	12T	28T
Offensive Pass Interference	1	2	1	10	2	20	0	1	0	7T	11T
Illegal Shift	0	0.72	0.72	0	2	10	1	0	0	1T	2T
Offensive Holding	13	14.91	1.91	130	19	177	7	8	5	10T	6
Roughing the Passer	4	3.97	-0.03	37	6	66	0	4	0	15T	9
Illegal Contact	0	1.84	1.84	0	4	19	1	0	0	1T	2T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	1	2.91	1.91	7	0	0	1	1	0	2T	31T
Illegal Use of Hands	1	1.56	0.56	10	4	28	0	0	1	12T	2T
Intentional Grounding	1	1.41	0.41	10	1	10	0	0	1	9T	14T
Defensive Offside	5	4.75	-0.25	27	9	41	1	3	2	15T	2
Tripping	0	0.16	0.16	0	1	10	0	0	0	1T	1T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0.22	0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	2	1	-1	29	1	1	0	1	1	25T	11T
Delay of Game	4	3.84	-0.16	20	10	49	0	2	2	15T	1
Horse Collar Tackle	2	0.69	-1.31	30	0	0	0	0	2	27T	18T
Encroachment	1	1.09	0.09	4	0	0	0	0	1	18T	21T
Defensive Holding	9	5.53	-3.47	45	8	38	6	4	5	25T	7
Illegal Formation	2	1.53	-0.47	10	0	0	1	1	1	20T	23T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Neutral Zone Infraction	6	5.13	-0.87	30	1	5	0	3	3	20T	28T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Running Into the Kicker	2	0.13	-1.87	9	0	0	0	1	1	32	5T
Illegal Motion	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	1	0.78	-0.22	5	1	5	0	1	0	16T	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	1	0.13	-0.87	5	0	0	0	1	0	29T	5T
Disqualification	1	0.5	-0.5	15	0	0	0	1	0	19T	15T
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	1	0.31	-0.69	15	0	0	0	1	0	25T	11T
Illegal Blindside Block	1	0.47	-0.53	15	0	0	0	1	0	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	3	16	0	0	0	1T	2T
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	0	1.06	1.06	0	3	45	0	0	0	1T	1T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0.25	0.25	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	1T
Kick Catch Interference	1	0.06	-0.94	15	0	0	0	1	0	31T	3T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0	0.31	0.31	0	2	10	0	0	0	1T	2T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0.31	0.31	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Totals	95	93.43	-1.57	860	103	807	18	52	43

Penalty Counts - Per Game

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Name	Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	1	4.94	0.88	4.38	0	17T	17T
Unnecessary Roughness	0.38	5	0.13	1.88	0	20T	29T
Defensive Pass Interference	0.69	12.25	0.56	9.5	0	23T	12T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0.13	1.69	0	0	0	18T	28T
Offensive Pass Interference	0.06	0.63	0.13	1.25	0	10T	11T
Illegal Shift	0	0	0.13	0.63	0.06	1T	2T
Offensive Holding	0.81	8.13	1.19	11.06	0.44	12T	5
Roughing the Passer	0.25	2.31	0.38	4.13	0	17	9
Illegal Contact	0	0	0.25	1.19	0.06	1T	2T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0.06	0.44	0	0	0.06	5T	31T
Illegal Use of Hands	0.06	0.63	0.25	1.75	0	14T	2T
Intentional Grounding	0.06	0.63	0.06	0.63	0	16T	14T
Defensive Offside	0.31	1.69	0.56	2.56	0.06	16T	2
Tripping	0	0	0.06	0.63	0	1T	1T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0.13	1.81	0.06	0.06	0	27T	11T
Delay of Game	0.25	1.25	0.63	3.06	0	18T	1
Horse Collar Tackle	0.13	1.88	0	0	0	31T	18T
Encroachment	0.06	0.25	0	0	0	21T	21T
Defensive Holding	0.56	2.81	0.5	2.38	0.38	27T	7
Illegal Formation	0.13	0.63	0	0	0.06	21T	23T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Neutral Zone Infraction	0.38	1.88	0.06	0.31	0	21T	28T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Running Into the Kicker	0.13	0.56	0	0	0	32	5T
Illegal Motion	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0.06	0.31	0.06	0.31	0	21T	9T
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	0.06	0.31	0	0	0	30T	5T
Disqualification	0.06	0.94	0	0	0	25T	15T
Illegal Touch Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Offensive Offside	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Taunting	0.06	0.94	0	0	0	28T	11T
Illegal Blindside Block	0.06	0.94	0	0	0	27T	15T
Illegal Wedge	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0	0.19	1	0	1T	2
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	0	0	0.19	2.81	0	1T	1T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0	0.06	0.31	0	1T	1T
Kick Catch Interference	0.06	0.94	0	0	0	31T	3T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0	0	0.13	0.63	0	1T	2
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Totals	5.94	53.79	6.46	50.46	1.12