New England Patriots

2021

Penalty Counts

The New England Patriots have played 18 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	17	18.75	1.75	84	15	73	0	5	12	10T	23
Unnecessary Roughness	6	5.38	-0.62	90	3	40	0	4	2	19T	23T
Defensive Pass Interference	8	9.63	1.63	173	14	163	1	4	4	8T	2T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	1	2.31	1.31	15	2	30	0	0	1	4T	14T
Offensive Pass Interference	0	2.5	2.5	0	4	40	1	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Shift	1	0.81	-0.19	5	0	0	0	0	1	16T	20T
Offensive Holding	25	21.13	-3.87	240	20	183	2	15	10	23T	16T
Roughing the Passer	3	4.81	1.81	45	7	92	0	2	1	3T	6
Illegal Contact	1	0.88	-0.12	5	0	0	0	0	1	14T	18T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	2	2.22	0.22	20	3	26	0	0	2	9T	7T
Illegal Use of Hands	2	2.34	0.34	15	5	34	0	2	0	12T	2T
Intentional Grounding	1	0.94	-0.06	10	1	10	0	0	1	13T	9T
Defensive Offside	4	4.97	0.97	19	0	0	0	2	2	10T	32
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	2	1.31	-0.69	21	2	30	0	2	0	22T	4T
Delay of Game	9	5.38	-3.62	45	3	15	0	3	6	29T	23T
Horse Collar Tackle	2	0.47	-1.53	19	2	20	0	1	1	30T	1T
Encroachment	3	1.16	-1.84	15	2	10	0	2	1	28T	5T
Defensive Holding	3	5.16	2.16	12	4	20	3	0	3	5T	19T
Illegal Formation	2	2.13	0.13	11	3	13	0	1	1	14T	4T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0.22	0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Neutral Zone Infraction	3	3.63	0.63	15	3	14	0	2	1	9T	17T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	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	0	0	1	0	0	1T	5T
Illegal Motion	0	0.22	0.22	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	1T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	1	1.44	0.44	5	3	14	0	0	1	11T	5T
Illegal Crackback	0	0.09	0.09	0	0	0	0	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	1	15	0	0	0	1T	1T
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	0	0	0	0	0	1T	9T
Low Block	0	0.44	0.44	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	13T
Disqualification	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	1	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	0	1.34	1.34	0	0	0	1	0	0	1T	26T
Illegal Blindside Block	2	0.38	-1.62	15	0	0	0	1	1	32	11T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	1	1.13	0.13	5	4	20	0	1	0	13T	2
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	4	0	0	0	0	1	25T	11T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0.09	0.09	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0	0.19	0.19	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0.31	0.31	0	1	11	0	0	0	1T	3T
Totals	100	104.41	4.41	888	103	878	10	47	53

Penalty Counts - Per Game

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Name	Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	0.94	4.67	0.83	4.06	0	12	23
Unnecessary Roughness	0.33	5	0.17	2.22	0	19T	28T
Defensive Pass Interference	0.44	9.61	0.78	9.06	0.06	8	2T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0.06	0.83	0.11	1.67	0	4T	18T
Offensive Pass Interference	0	0	0.22	2.22	0.06	1T	7
Illegal Shift	0.06	0.28	0	0	0	17T	20T
Offensive Holding	1.39	13.33	1.11	10.17	0.11	24	21
Roughing the Passer	0.17	2.5	0.39	5.11	0	4T	6
Illegal Contact	0.06	0.28	0	0	0	15T	18T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0.11	1.11	0.17	1.44	0	13T	10T
Illegal Use of Hands	0.11	0.83	0.28	1.89	0	13	4
Intentional Grounding	0.06	0.56	0.06	0.56	0	14T	16T
Defensive Offside	0.22	1.06	0	0	0	11T	32
Tripping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0	0	0	0	1T	10T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0.11	1.17	0.11	1.67	0	22T	6T
Delay of Game	0.5	2.5	0.17	0.83	0	30	27T
Horse Collar Tackle	0.11	1.06	0.11	1.11	0	30T	2
Encroachment	0.17	0.83	0.11	0.56	0	28T	9T
Defensive Holding	0.17	0.67	0.22	1.11	0.17	6	23T
Illegal Formation	0.11	0.61	0.17	0.72	0	15	12T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Neutral Zone Infraction	0.17	0.83	0.17	0.78	0	13T	19T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0	0	0	0.06	1T	5T
Illegal Motion	0	0	0.06	0.28	0	1T	5T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0.06	0.28	0.17	0.78	0	13T	7T
Illegal Crackback	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Illegal Substitution	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Chop Block	0	0	0.06	0.83	0	1T	3T
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	0	0	1T	9T
Low Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	13T
Disqualification	0	0	0	0	0.06	1T	6T
Illegal Touch Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Offensive Offside	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Taunting	0	0	0	0	0.06	1T	26T
Illegal Blindside Block	0.11	0.83	0	0	0	32	11T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	0.06	0.28	0.22	1.11	0	15T	2
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0.06	0.22	0	0	0	25T	11T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0	0.06	0.61	0	1T	6
Totals	5.58	49.34	5.75	48.79	0.58