Minnesota Vikings

2020

Penalty Counts

The Minnesota Vikings 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	74	12	59	0	10	6	16T	27T
Unnecessary Roughness	1	5.09	4.09	15	6	68	0	1	0	1T	9T
Defensive Pass Interference	6	9.81	3.81	81	8	127	0	1	5	4T	17T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	2	2.25	0.25	30	1	15	0	2	0	12T	20T
Offensive Pass Interference	3	2	-1	27	0	0	0	1	2	21T	31T
Illegal Shift	1	0.72	-0.28	5	1	5	0	1	0	14T	7T
Offensive Holding	19	14.91	-4.09	182	13	130	3	7	12	26T	22T
Roughing the Passer	0	3.97	3.97	0	7	81	0	0	0	1T	5T
Illegal Contact	3	1.84	-1.16	15	4	20	1	0	3	22T	2T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	5	2.91	-2.09	48	3	30	1	4	1	28T	10T
Illegal Use of Hands	0	1.56	1.56	0	1	5	2	0	0	1T	15T
Intentional Grounding	0	1.41	1.41	0	1	13	0	0	0	1T	14T
Defensive Offside	1	4.75	3.75	5	8	41	2	0	1	2T	3T
Tripping	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0.22	0.22	0	1	15	0	0	0	1T	1T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	20T
Delay of Game	7	3.84	-3.16	34	1	5	0	5	2	30T	25T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0.69	0.69	0	1	14	0	0	0	1T	5T
Encroachment	0	1.09	1.09	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	11T
Defensive Holding	4	5.53	1.53	20	5	25	1	3	1	10T	17T
Illegal Formation	0	1.53	1.53	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	17T
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	4	20	0	3	0	7T	15T
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	0	0	0	1T	6T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0	0.78	0.78	0	2	10	1	0	0	1T	2T
Illegal Crackback	1	0.22	-0.78	15	0	0	0	0	1	26T	7T
Illegal Substitution	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Chop Block	1	0.22	-0.78	15	0	0	0	1	0	26T	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	10	0	0	0	0	1	19T	15T
Illegal Touch Kick	1	0.13	-0.87	5	0	0	0	0	1	29T	5T
Offensive Offside	1	0.13	-0.87	5	0	0	0	1	0	30T	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	5	0	0	0	0	2	23T	20T
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	3	1.06	-1.94	39	1	15	0	2	1	29T	13T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0.25	0.25	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	9T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0	0.31	0.31	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0.31	0.31	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Totals	82	93.43	11.43	650	83	723	11	43	39

Penalty Counts - Per Game

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Name	Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	1	4.63	0.75	3.69	0	17T	27T
Unnecessary Roughness	0.06	0.94	0.38	4.25	0	1T	9T
Defensive Pass Interference	0.38	5.06	0.5	7.94	0	6T	15T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0.13	1.88	0.06	0.94	0	18T	20T
Offensive Pass Interference	0.19	1.69	0	0	0	27T	31T
Illegal Shift	0.06	0.31	0.06	0.31	0	20T	7T
Offensive Holding	1.19	11.38	0.81	8.13	0.19	29	21
Roughing the Passer	0	0	0.44	5.06	0	1T	5T
Illegal Contact	0.19	0.94	0.25	1.25	0.06	25T	2T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0.31	3	0.19	1.88	0.06	29T	10T
Illegal Use of Hands	0	0	0.06	0.31	0.13	1T	15T
Intentional Grounding	0	0	0.06	0.81	0	1T	14T
Defensive Offside	0.06	0.31	0.5	2.56	0.13	4T	3T
Tripping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	6T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0	0.06	0.94	0	1T	1T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0	0	0	0	0	1T	20T
Delay of Game	0.44	2.13	0.06	0.31	0	31	25T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0	0.06	0.88	0	1T	5T
Encroachment	0	0	0.06	0.31	0	1T	11T
Defensive Holding	0.25	1.25	0.31	1.56	0.06	16T	16
Illegal Formation	0	0	0.06	0.31	0	1T	17T
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	0.25	1.25	0	7T	15T
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	1T	6T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0	0	0.13	0.63	0.06	1T	2T
Illegal Crackback	0.06	0.94	0	0	0	29T	7T
Illegal Substitution	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Chop Block	0.06	0.94	0	0	0	28T	8T
Clipping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Forward Pass	0.06	0.31	0	0	0	30T	5T
Disqualification	0.06	0.63	0	0	0	25T	15T
Illegal Touch Kick	0.06	0.31	0	0	0	30T	5T
Offensive Offside	0.06	0.31	0	0	0	31	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	0.31	0	0	0	27T	20T
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact	0.19	2.44	0.06	0.94	0	31	13T
Offensive Too Many Men on Field	0	0	0	0	0	1T	9T
Kick Catch Interference	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Player Out of Bounds on Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Illegal Double-Team Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Totals	5.13	40.65	5.17	45.2	0.69