Week 15 Officiating: Meet Alan Eck and Crew

Name: Alan Eck

Age: 56

Promoted To Referee: 2023

Graphic Courtesy of Football Zebras

Last Game: Week 14 2025 - HOU @ KC

Last Lions Game: Week 13 2024 - CHI 20 @ DET 23

• The Chicago Bears committed 8 penalties for 78 yards. They were flagged a total of 9 times.

• The Detroit Lions committed 6 penalties for 79 yards. They were flagged a total of 6 times.

• Together there were 14 penalties for 157 yards. There were 15 total flags in this game.

Notable

Alan Eck and crew are one of the least penalizing officials in the NFL. They are lenient on the home team, and bunder the avg flag count on the away team as well, which bodes well for both the Lions and the Rams. One trend with this crew, they are hawks around the Lion of Scrimmage, with Offensive Holding, False Start and Illegal shift as three of their top five called penalties. The others are DPI and Illegal contact. Although the Rams are the least penalized team in the NFL, they do have one flaw which is Offensive Holding. They have been called for 19 Holds on 71 total penalties, for a whopping 27%, good for two holds a game. Their next highest is 9 False Starts, which also aligns with the Eck crew's tendencies. The Lions will have to look out for the Holding as well, but also the DPI which is one of their Achilles for the DBs.