Detroit Lions

2021

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	26	18.75	-7.25	125	12	58	0	12	14	30T	26T
Unnecessary Roughness	1	5.38	4.38	15	7	90	0	0	1	1T	9T
Defensive Pass Interference	11	9.63	-1.37	184	7	111	0	3	8	21T	24T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	1	2.31	1.31	15	2	21	0	1	0	4T	14T
Offensive Pass Interference	2	2.5	0.5	20	1	10	0	0	2	6T	23T
Illegal Shift	0	0.81	0.81	0	0	0	1	0	0	1T	20T
Offensive Holding	18	21.13	3.13	173	26	258	10	9	9	12T	5T
Roughing the Passer	3	4.81	1.81	31	8	120	0	2	1	3T	3T
Illegal Contact	1	0.88	-0.12	5	1	5	0	0	1	14T	9T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	2	2.22	0.22	16	1	10	0	1	1	9T	23T
Illegal Use of Hands	2	2.34	0.34	9	1	5	2	0	2	12T	23T
Intentional Grounding	1	0.94	-0.06	14	1	10	0	0	1	13T	9T
Defensive Offside	4	4.97	0.97	20	3	15	4	0	4	10T	20T
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	3	1.31	-1.69	37	0	0	0	1	2	27T	26T
Delay of Game	9	5.38	-3.62	45	1	6	1	6	3	29T	32
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0.47	0.47	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	13T
Encroachment	0	1.16	1.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	22T
Defensive Holding	4	5.16	1.16	17	5	25	1	1	3	11T	12T
Illegal Formation	4	2.13	-1.87	20	0	0	1	4	0	26T	27T
Illegal Touch Pass	2	0.22	-1.78	5	0	0	0	1	1	32	8T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0.13	0.13	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	1T
Neutral Zone Infraction	3	3.63	0.63	15	6	30	0	2	1	9T	4T
Defensive Delay of Game	1	0.16	-0.84	5	0	0	0	1	0	29T	5T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0.16	0.16	0	1	4	0	0	0	1T	2T
Illegal Motion	0	0.22	0.22	0	0	0	1	0	0	1T	8T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0	1.44	1.44	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	22T
Illegal Crackback	0	0.09	0.09	0	1	15	0	0	0	1T	1T
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	1	0.16	-0.84	14	0	0	0	1	0	28T	6T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0.31	0.31	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	2T
Low Block	0	0.44	0.44	0	0	0	1	0	0	1T	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	1	1.34	0.34	15	0	0	0	1	0	8T	26T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0.38	0.38	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	3	1.13	-1.87	14	0	0	1	2	1	29T	20T
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	1	0.31	-0.69	5	0	0	0	1	0	25T	11T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0.09	0.09	0	1	15	0	0	0	1T	1T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	1	0.19	-0.81	5	0	0	0	1	0	27T	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0.31	0.31	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	9T
Totals	105	104.41	-0.59	824	87	818	23	50	55

Penalty Counts - Per Game

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Name	Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	1.53	7.35	0.71	3.41	0	30T	26T
Unnecessary Roughness	0.06	0.88	0.41	5.29	0	2	9
Defensive Pass Interference	0.65	10.82	0.41	6.53	0	21T	24T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0.06	0.88	0.12	1.24	0	6T	14T
Offensive Pass Interference	0.12	1.18	0.06	0.59	0	12T	23T
Illegal Shift	0	0	0	0	0.06	1T	20T
Offensive Holding	1.06	10.18	1.53	15.18	0.59	14	4T
Roughing the Passer	0.18	1.82	0.47	7.06	0	7T	3T
Illegal Contact	0.06	0.29	0.06	0.29	0	18T	9T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0.12	0.94	0.06	0.59	0	16T	23T
Illegal Use of Hands	0.12	0.53	0.06	0.29	0.12	14T	23T
Intentional Grounding	0.06	0.82	0.06	0.59	0	17T	9T
Defensive Offside	0.24	1.18	0.18	0.88	0.24	13T	20T
Tripping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0	0	0	0	1T	10T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0.18	2.18	0	0	0	29	26T
Delay of Game	0.53	2.65	0.06	0.35	0.06	31T	32
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0	0	0	0	1T	13T
Encroachment	0	0	0	0	0	1T	22T
Defensive Holding	0.24	1	0.29	1.47	0.06	13T	12T
Illegal Formation	0.24	1.18	0	0	0.06	28T	27T
Illegal Touch Pass	0.12	0.29	0	0	0	32	8T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0	0.06	0.29	0	1T	1T
Neutral Zone Infraction	0.18	0.88	0.35	1.76	0	16T	4T
Defensive Delay of Game	0.06	0.29	0	0	0	30T	5T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0	0.06	0.24	0	1T	2T
Illegal Motion	0	0	0	0	0.06	1T	8T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	22T
Illegal Crackback	0	0	0.06	0.88	0	1T	1T
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	0.06	0.82	0	0	0	29T	6T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0	0.06	0.29	0	1T	2T
Low Block	0	0	0	0	0.06	1T	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	0.06	0.88	0	0	0	12T	26T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	0.18	0.82	0	0	0.06	29T	20T
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0.06	0.29	0	0	0	28T	11T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0	0.06	0.88	0	1T	1T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0.06	0.29	0	0	0	30T	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	9T
Totals	6.23	48.44	5.13	48.1	1.37