Atlanta Falcons

2020

Penalty Counts

The Atlanta Falcons 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	5	11	16T	20T
Unnecessary Roughness	6	5.09	-0.91	85	4	57	0	4	2	19T	22T
Defensive Pass Interference	13	9.81	-3.19	166	9	109	1	6	7	25T	12T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	5	2.25	-2.75	75	1	15	1	2	3	29T	20T
Offensive Pass Interference	1	2	1	10	1	10	0	1	0	7T	21T
Illegal Shift	1	0.72	-0.28	5	3	15	1	0	1	14T	1
Offensive Holding	8	14.91	6.91	80	18	177	0	5	3	1	7T
Roughing the Passer	5	3.97	-1.03	47	7	105	0	3	2	18T	5T
Illegal Contact	1	1.84	0.84	5	1	5	1	0	1	5T	17T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	1	2.91	1.91	10	1	10	0	0	1	2T	26T
Illegal Use of Hands	1	1.56	0.56	5	3	20	0	0	1	12T	5T
Intentional Grounding	2	1.41	-0.59	21	1	11	0	1	1	22T	14T
Defensive Offside	5	4.75	-0.25	25	4	20	4	2	3	15T	18T
Tripping	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	1	0	0	1T	6T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0.22	0.22	0	1	11	0	0	0	1T	1T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	2	1	-1	16	1	15	0	2	0	25T	11T
Delay of Game	1	3.84	2.84	5	2	10	0	1	0	1T	22T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0.69	0.69	0	0	0	1	0	0	1T	18T
Encroachment	0	1.09	1.09	0	2	10	0	0	0	1T	4T
Defensive Holding	4	5.53	1.53	19	12	60	5	0	4	10T	1
Illegal Formation	1	1.53	0.53	5	0	0	4	1	0	6T	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	3	5.13	2.13	15	2	10	0	1	2	7T	24T
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	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Illegal Motion	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	1	0	0	1T	6T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0	0.78	0.78	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
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	1	0.19	-0.81	15	0	0	0	1	0	28T	7T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Disqualification	1	0.5	-0.5	15	0	0	0	0	1	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	0	0.31	0.31	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0.47	0.47	0	1	15	0	0	0	1T	2T
Illegal Wedge	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	2	1.03	-0.97	11	0	0	0	2	0	23T	20T
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	0	1.06	1.06	0	3	45	1	0	0	1T	1T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	1	0.25	-0.75	5	0	0	0	0	1	25T	9T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	1	0.31	-0.69	5	0	0	0	1	0	23T	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	1	0.31	-0.69	12	0	0	0	1	0	25T	7T
Totals	83	93.43	10.43	736	91	800	21	39	44

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	5.31	0.25	3.56	0	20T	22
Defensive Pass Interference	0.81	10.38	0.56	6.81	0.06	27T	12T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0.31	4.69	0.06	0.94	0.06	30	20T
Offensive Pass Interference	0.06	0.63	0.06	0.63	0	10T	21T
Illegal Shift	0.06	0.31	0.19	0.94	0.06	20T	1
Offensive Holding	0.5	5	1.13	11.06	0	1	7
Roughing the Passer	0.31	2.94	0.44	6.56	0	20T	5T
Illegal Contact	0.06	0.31	0.06	0.31	0.06	11T	17T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0.06	0.63	0.06	0.63	0	5T	26T
Illegal Use of Hands	0.06	0.31	0.19	1.25	0	14T	5T
Intentional Grounding	0.13	1.31	0.06	0.69	0	24T	14T
Defensive Offside	0.31	1.56	0.25	1.25	0.25	16T	18T
Tripping	0	0	0	0	0.06	1T	6T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0	0.06	0.69	0	1T	1T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0.13	1	0.06	0.94	0	27T	11T
Delay of Game	0.06	0.31	0.13	0.63	0	3T	22T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0	0	0	0.06	1T	18T
Encroachment	0	0	0.13	0.63	0	1T	4T
Defensive Holding	0.25	1.19	0.75	3.75	0.31	16T	1
Illegal Formation	0.06	0.31	0	0	0.25	11T	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	0.19	0.94	0.13	0.63	0	7T	24T
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	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Illegal Motion	0	0	0	0	0.06	1T	6T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
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	0.06	0.94	0	0	0	30T	7T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	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	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0	0.06	0.94	0	1T	2T
Illegal Wedge	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Defensive Too Many Men on Field	0.13	0.69	0	0	0	27T	20T
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	0	0	0.19	2.81	0.06	1T	1T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0.06	0.31	0	0	0	25T	9T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0.06	0.31	0	0	0	27T	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0.06	0.75	0	0	0	29T	7T
Totals	5.17	46.01	5.7	50.03	1.29