Week 18 Officiating: Meet Brad Rogers and Crew

Name: Brad Rogers 

Age: 52 

Promoted To Referee: 2019 

Graphic Courtesy of Football Zebras

Last Game: Week 17 2025 DAL@ WAS  

Last Lions Game: Week 18 2024 – MIN 9 @ DET 31  

• The Minnesota Vikings committed 6 penalties for 30 yards. They were flagged a total of 6 times. 

• The Detroit Lions committed 8 penalties for 49 yards. They were flagged a total of 10 times. 

• Together there were 14 penalties for 79 yards. There were 16 total flags in this game. 

 Notable 

Brad Rogers and crew are more in the middle of the pack of officials for flags, yards and types of penalties in 2025.  They pay attention to the Offensive Line area, with False Start and Offensive Holding as their two most called penalties by a large margin.  They also flag Unnecessary Roughness, Defensive Holding and Defensive Pass Interference in their top 5, which aligns with most of the Lions' penalty trends.  Chicago also gets impacted, as they have a significant number of false starts and Offensive Holding calls (more so than Lions).  The one benefit is that this crew tends to flag visitors at the 4^th highest rate in the league, but the home teams only at the 11^th highest rate.