Week 14 Officiating: Meet Shawn Hochuli and Crew

Name: Shawn Hochuli

Age: 47

Promoted To Referee: 2018

Graphic Courtesy of Football Zebras

Last Game: Week 13 2025 NYJ @ ATL

Last Lions Game: Week 17 2024 – DET 40 @ SF 34

• The Detroit Lions committed 6 penalties for 57 yards. They were flagged a total of 7 times.

• The San Francisco 49ers committed 5 penalties for 30 yards. They were flagged a total of 7 times.

• Together there were 11 penalties for 87 yards. There were 14 total flags in this game.

Notable

Shawn Hochuli and his crew are generally balanced, but flag-heavy officiating in games in 2025 ranking top 3 crews in most categories. Their trend is to penalize the home team with one more flag per game, and they emphasize False Starts, Offensive Holding, DPI, Unnecessary Roughness and Defensive offside's. Both the Cowboys and Lions have these five penalties in their top 7, but Dallas in particular, being the 29th most flagged team in the league, will likely struggle with the Offensive Holding and false start calls in Ford Field. For the Lions, the greater concern is the Defensive Pass Interference, as CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens have drawn tis penalty more than any other duo in the NFL, while the Lions have had one in their favor all year.