Hold On – Week 5

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October 10, 2025

By Noonefromtampa

League Summary

Through this week, there’ve been a total of 1,143 penalties for 9,128 yards across 78 games, yielding 7.33 penalties per team per game. Washington is tied for fourteenth in most penalties, along with Philadelphia and Cleveland in week 5, averaging 7.0 penalties per game which is under the league average.

Most Penalized Teams

1 – Vikings – with 44

2 – Patriots, Broncos and Giants – tied with 43

5 – Cowboys, Chiefs, Jaguars, Saints and Jets – tied with 42

Most Frequent Penalties

  1. Offensive Holding – 242
  2. False Start – 191
  3. Defensive Pass Interference – 90
  4. Defensive Holding – 66
  5. Delay of Game – 62

Game 5 Chargers Recap

Washington – 7 penalties for 48 yards, 1 declined and gave up 1 first down

Los Angeles – 10 penalties for 85 yards, 2 declined and gave up 4 first downs

Accepted Penalties:

Penalty Washington LA Chargers Grand Total
Defensive Offside 1 0 1
Defensive Pass Interference 0 1 1
Defensive Too Many Men on Field 0 1 1
Delay of Game 1 0 1
False Start 2 3 5
Illegal Formation 1 2 3
Offensive Holding 1 1 2
Roughing the Kicker 0 1 1
Unnecessary Roughness 1 1 2
Grand Total 7 10 17

By Unit:

Team Defense Offense ST Grand Total
Washington 0 5 2 7
LA Chargers 3 4 3 10
Grand Total 3 9 5 17

By Player:

Against Player Penalty Accepted Declined
Washington Unnamed Illegal Formation 1 0
Delay of Game 1 0
T. Martin Unnecessary Roughness 1 0
L. Tunsil Offensive Holding 1 0
T. Scott False Start 1 0
C. Yankoff Offensive Holding 0 1
J. McNichols False Start 1 0
M. Sainristil Defensive Offside 1 0
LA Chargers T. Pipkins False Start 1 0
Offensive Holding 1 0
Illegal Formation 1 0
T. Still Defensive Pass Interference 1 0
Defensive Holding 0 1
B. St-Juste False Start 1 0
Illegal Formation 1 0
D. Phillips Defensive Offside 0 1
Q. Johnston False Start 1 0
O. Ogbonnia Unnecessary Roughness 1 0
Unnamed Defensive Too Many Men on Field 1 0
M. Wax Roughing the Kicker 1 0

Season:

Player Accepted Declined Offset
M. Lattimore 4 1 0
N. Allegretti 3 0 0
L. Tunsil 3 3 0
J. Conerly 2 2 0
Unnamed 2 2 0
B. Sinnott 2 0 0
M. Mariota 2 0 0
Z. Ertz 2 0 0
L. McCaffrey 1 0 0
B. Wagner 1 0 0
T. Amos 1 1 0
M. Sainristil 1 0 0
A. Wylie 1 0 0
T. Scott 1 0 0
J. Daniels 1 0 0
V. Miller 1 0 0
D. Wise 1 0 0
M. Gay 1 0 0
N. Igbinoghene 1 0 0
T. Martin 1 0 0
A. Ekeler 1 0 0
T. McLaurin 1 0 0
N. Brown 1 0 0
J. Jones 1 0 0
J. McNichols 1 0 0
C. Yankoff 0 1 0
J. Martin 0 1 0
W. Harris 0 1 0
J. Lane 0 0 1

Thoughts

The Commanders had another game where they got called for two penalties on the same offensive play. In the fourth quarter during the 99 yard touchdown drive, Laremy Tunsil and Colson Yankoff were both called for offensive holding on a pass to Deebo Samuel negating a first down.

Should this have been called unnecessary roughness for helmet to helmet hit? Chargers’ fans think so.

Always remember, cross the goal line before dropping the ball.

This was called roughing the quarterback, but is it really?

Eagles’ fans were looking for a DPI call on this one.

Officials missed another call, here where the TV camera wire deflects the field goal attempt.