RotoWire.com is breaking down the most penalized NFL teams during the 2025 season, updating on a weekly basis for the most up-to-date stats, to see which teams are the most disciplined. Using TeamRankings.com, we ranked teams based on a discipline score, which is found by taking Penalties per game + Penalty yards per game and dividing it by two. [(Penalties per game +penalty yards per game)/2].
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PackersJaguars Now Top The League
Jacksonville got a close win against Las Vegas in Week 10, but the Jaguars also moved up to first place in the Discipline Score category first. The Jaguars racked up nine penalties for 80 yards against the Raiders and thus vaulted over Chicago for the top spot.
Washington was the big mover of the week. The 
Commanders jumped from 13th all the way to 7th after getting hit with eight penalties for 87 yards against Seattle on Sunday night.
New England fell from sixth to 10th and is on the verge of moving out of the top 10. The Patriots had only two penalties for just 15 yards against Atlanta. It's the type of thing that head coach Mike Vrabel has been pushing his team to do since he took over and those efforts are starting to pay big dividends.
Houston preceded the Patriots in moving out of the top 10. The Texans had only four penalties for 29 yards against Denver. Houston head coach DeMeco Ryans subscribes to similar coaching theories as Vrabel and is driving his club to be as disciplined as possible in the penalty category.
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Key Takeaways
As notable as the team changes were, the biggest change in Week 9 by far is a reduction in the volume of teams getting called for a double-digit penalty volume. This past week had only one instance of a team getting called for 10 or more penalties. That's a huge drop off from earlier this season. Through Week 8 there were 47 instances of a team being called for 10+ penalties.
This decline in spike games has finally dropped the 2025 season in the area of all-time pass happy seasons. Two weeks ago, the 2025 season was trending as the third highest volume of 10+ penalty games through Week 7. That ranking has now dropped to 10th all time in terms of number of 10+ penalty occurrences after nine weeks of a season. We may be able to wave the flag on calling for fewer penalty-riddled games this year.
