The NFL Teams With The Most Cautions And Fines

12/5/2025

The NFL Teams With the Most Cautions and Fines

The NFL is the most-watched sport in America^[1], and as a result, it generates a lot of money; the combined value of the league’s franchises is around $225 billion. The average value of each team is $7.1 billion^[2], meaning that they can spend vast sums on player wages, infrastructure, and facilities to try and secure victory.

Sometimes, NFL teams and the players who represent them are so determined to win that they’ll stray over the line and commit foul plays. In 2024, the average number of penalties per game was 6.41, with some teams faring worse than others.

Foul play results in fines for teams, with some acts incurring more severe penalties than others. But which NFL team is the most cautioned, and who has paid out the most in fines? Ontario online casino provider Spin Genie has used data from the 2024 season to reveal the dirtiest teams.

Key Takeaways

In total, $5.7 million was handed out in fines across the league, which is a small amount (0.02%) compared to the clubs' total value, estimated to be around $225 billion.²
The Super Bowl champions, the Philadelphia Eagles, received the largest number of fines, totalling over $100,000 more than the average.
The Houston Texans were the most cautioned teams, but did not top the total fines rankings, suggesting that their fouls were not as serious.
Winning comes with a high fine cost; the 2024 Super Bowl champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, had the fourth-highest amount of fines.
Denzel Perryman of the Los Angeles Chargers was the most fined player, accumulating $66,000 in fines from individual cautions.

The Most Cautioned Teams In The NFL

The data shows that in the 2024 season, the average penalties conceded per game was 6.41, with an average penalty yard distance of 51.89. On average, teams received 0.9 fines per game at an average cost of nearly $12,000.

1. Houston Texans, caution score of 8.15 out of 10:

The Houston Texans enjoyed a successful season in 2024, reaching the playoffs for only the eighth time in their history under head coach DeMeco Ryans. On their way to their successful season, the Texans were the dirtiest team in the NFL, picking up the highest caution score.

On average, the Texans had 1.58 fines per game, which is more than half a foul more than the league average (0.9 per game). This number of fines was almost 0.3 per game higher than the second-highest ranking team for this metric.

Additionally, the Texans ranked in the top five worst teams for the number of penalties committed per match (7.11) and the number of penalty yards conceded per match (60.47). Eventually, the Texans lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoffs, a team with the 20th-worst disciplinary record in the NFL.

2. Baltimore Ravens, caution score of 7.99 out of 10:

The two-time Super Bowl champions, the Baltimore Ravens, have been a successful franchise in the NFL in recent years, reaching the playoffs in the last few campaigns. They managed this again in 2024, despite having the second-worst caution score of any team.

The Ravens didn’t receive that many fines from foul play (0.74 per game), but they did receive the heftiest penalty of $17,447 per fine on average. This suggests that the severity of the foul committed by the Ravens was typically worse than other teams, and in fact, their average fine was almost $6,000 more than the national average.

3. New Orleans Saints, caution score of 7.82 out of 10:

At the other end of the spectrum, it would appear that the New Orleans Saints gave away lots of small fouls, as they topped the charts for the number of penalties conceded (8.06 per game), but also had a below-average value of fines ($10,315 per foul).

The Saints had a disastrous season, finishing bottom of their division and second-bottom of their conference after achieving just five wins, and perhaps their lack of discipline was a contributing factor to this outcome.

The average number of fouls committed per game across the NFL in 2024 was almost 1.5 fewer than the Saints managed, and as a result, they also conceded the most penalty yards in the league (66.71).

The Most Fined NFL Teams

Success is measured in the number of fines given, it would seem, as the Philadelphia Eagles won the championship, whilst also leading the standings for the number of fines received.

The Houston Texans ranked second, with a fine value of less than $1,000 less than the Eagles, and the Denver Broncos ranked third. Across the board, the average team received $178,000 in fines across the 2024 season.

1. Philadelphia Eagles, $314,127 total season fines:

The Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl LIX in emphatic style at the end of an imperious 2024 season in which they toppled their recent rivals, the Kansas City Chiefs. Along the way, they received the most fines of any team ($314,000), over 50% more than the national average.

However, it has to be taken into account that in reaching the Super Bowl, the Eagles played more games than most teams, so they had more opportunities to receive fines.

2. Houston Texans, $313,590 total season fines:

Despite playing two fewer games, the Texans almost exceeded the Eagles; only $537 separated the two teams. Moreover, in their 19 games, the Texans received 27 fines in total, which is three more than the Eagles, and almost double the league average of 15.

3. Denver Broncos, $273,069 total season fines:

In 2024, the Broncos scraped a playoff appearance by jagging the last wildcard spot in the AFC conference, and promptly got knocked out in their match against the Buffalo Bills. This means that they played 18 games in total, during which they accrued the third-highest value of fines of any team.

The almost $275,000 received by the Broncos is around $100,000 more than the national average, and they managed this from 23 total fouls, an average of $11,873 per foul.

The Most Fined Players In The NFL

During matches, NFL players can be fined for numerous offences, foul play being the most obvious. However, they can also receive fines for several other reasons, including:

Incorrect use of equipment or clothing
Violation of safety rules that can endanger themselves or others
Unsportsmanlike conduct
Action against officials

In total, 367 players were fined during the 2024 season, with an average amount lost of around $15,000.

Chauncey Gardner-Johnson was the most fined player in the NFL in 2024. The Los Angeles Chargers’ inside linebacker received over $100,000 in fines for unsportsmanlike conduct and unnecessary roughness; this total was almost ten times the league average for total fines. As his team, the Philadelphia Eagles, won the Super Bowl, his rough play didn’t hinder the team.

Two players had fines of roughly $90,000, and George Pickens had the second-highest amount of fines. Pickens picked up a quarter of his fines in one match against the Dallas Cowboys when he was penalised for wearing unapproved eye black and grabbing another player's facemask.

Marlon Humphrey ranked third, also with fines of around $90,000. Humphrey received half of his total fines in one nasty incident against the Buffalo Bills; his helmet-to-helmet contact on Bills’ quarterback Josh Allen saw him cop this hefty fine.

Methodology

Spin Genie provides online slots in Ontario. As part of our team's ongoing interest in competitive sports such as football, we wanted to explore which NFL teams give away the most penalties and are fined the most. The data was compiled using the following methodology and sources: