Hold On – Week 6
October 15, 2025
By Noonefromtampa
League Summary
After this wweek’s games, the league had a total of 1,328 penalties for 10,532 yards across 93 games, yielding 7.14 penalties per team per game. Washington is tied for sixteenth in most penalties with 42, along with Kansas City in week 6, averaging 7.0 penalties per game which is slightly under the league average.
Most Penalized Teams
1 – Patriots – with 54
2 – Jaguars – with 52
3 – Saints – with 50
4 – Giants and Broncos – tied with 49
5 – Cowboys, Cardinals and Titans – tied with 48
Most Frequent Penalties
- Offensive Holding – 269
- False Start – 226
- Defensive Pass Interference – 102
- Defensive Holding – 74
- Delay of Game – 71
Game 5 Bears Recap
Washington – 5 penalties for 40 yards, 0 declined, 1 offsetting and gave up 1 first down
Chicago – 9 penalties for 84 yards, 1 declined, 1 offsetting and gave up 4 first downs
Accepted Penalties:
| Penalty | Washington | Chicago | Grand Total |
| Defensive Offside | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Face Mask | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| False Start | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Illegal Blindside Block | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Illegal Block Above the Waist | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Illegal Contact | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Illegal Formation | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Intentional Grounding | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Offensive Offside | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Offensive Pass Interference | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Roughing the Passer | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Grand Total | 5 | 9 | 14 |
By Unit:
| Team | Defense | Offense | ST | Grand Total |
| Washington | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Chicago | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| Grand Total | 6 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
By Player:
| Against | Player | Penalty | Accepted | Declined | Offset |
| Washington | L. Tunsil | False Start | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Magee | Illegal Blindside Block | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| C. Yankoff | Illegal Formation | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| J. Daniels | Intentional Grounding | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| A. Wylie | Ineligible Downfield Pass | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| M. Sainristil | Illegal Contact | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Chicago | J. Brisker | Roughing the Passer | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Defensive Holding | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| N. Wright | Face Mask | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Illegal Contact | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| K. Gordon | Defensive Offside | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| M. Sweat | Roughing the Passer | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| N. McCloud | Defensive Offside | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| C. Loveland | Offensive Pass Interference | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| D. Moore | Offensive Offside | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| D. Robinson | Illegal Block Above the Waist | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| T. Benedet | Illegal Formation | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Season:
| Player | Accepted | Declined | Offset |
| M. Lattimore | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| L. Tunsil | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| N. Allegretti | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| M. Mariota | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Unnamed | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| J. Daniels | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Conerly | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| B. Sinnott | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| M. Sainristil | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Z. Ertz | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Yankoff | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| T. Amos | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| A. Wylie | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| B. Wagner | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| L. McCaffrey | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| M. Gay | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Wise | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Magee | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Scott | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| V. Miller | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Ekeler | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Jones | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Martin | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| N. Igbinoghene | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| T. McLaurin | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| N. Brown | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| J. McNichols | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Martin | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| W. Harris | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Lane | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Thoughts
This is the first game I remember when Washington’s opponent committed a penalty on every scoring play. o Caleb Williams touchdown keeper, D’Andre Swift grabbed Quan Martin’s jersey; Theo Benedet was called for illegal formation which nullified a touchdown; and there was an uncalled delay of game penalty on Swift’s long touchdown reception.
Should this have been called a hold on the Caleb Williams touchdown? pic.twitter.com/7mTdQKN1Th
— Rate the Refs (@Rate_the_Refs) October 14, 2025
How many games do you watch and there are no offensive holding calls? Well, this game was one, mark that on your calendars.
How about a game where you have no penalties? Since it was Chiefs of course it’s a conspiracy.
Wild: The Chiefs have had ZERO penalties called against them tonight against the Lions.
I wonder how that is possible…🧐 pic.twitter.com/VxbfTaVNWM
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) October 13, 2025
Refs are still not calling the hip drop tackles:
Here's another angle of the hip drop tackle that injured Palmer. No flag was thrown for this pic.twitter.com/ACUJi6RYjy
— Rate the Refs (@Rate_the_Refs) October 14, 2025
Not a penalty because the game was over, but cost Brian Branch a 1 game suspension (which he has appealed):
Fight breaks out at the end of the Chiefs vs Lions game pic.twitter.com/xt6KBj5pC3
— Rate the Refs (@Rate_the_Refs) October 13, 2025